Do migrants get stuck in the informal sector? Findings from a household survey in four Indonesian cities

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ID8416637
AutoresChristopher D Manning (0000-0001-6155-649X, Australian National University), Chris Manning, Devanto Shasta Pratomo (0009-0002-7820-3417, University of Brawijaya)
Año2013
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas167-192
Fecha de publicación2013-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00074918.2013.772940
OpenAlexW2108085806
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas30

This article compares labour-market outcomes for individuals in migrant and non-migrant households in Indonesia. It introduces two new work-status groups – small-business operators and formal-casual or contract employees – in an effort to transcend the usual formal–informal distinction. We find that long-term migrants (LTMs) tend to gravitate to the small-business sector and to jobs with regular wages, whereas recent and very recent migrants are more likely to work in the informal sector. Our findings on the labour-market outcomes of successive generations of migrants are less conclusive. While a larger proportion of LTM children than that of their parents work in the formal sector, the children of migrant heads of households are less likely than those of non-migrants to find formal-sector jobs. We also find that distortionary labour-market regulations appear to diminish the overall benefits of migration

Business · Casual · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Indonesian · Informal sector · Labour economics · Migrant workers · Political science · Survey data collection · Work (physics) · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Taxation and Compliance Studies