How Do Sectoral Employment Structures Affect Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Donny Pasaribu, Deasy Pane and Yudi Suwarna
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Donny Pasaribu: The Australian National University
Deasy Pane: The National Development Planning Agency, Indonesia
Yudi Suwarna: Jakarta Investment Center, Indonesia

No DP-2021-13, Working Papers from Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)

Abstract: As people’s mobility determines the spread of COVID-19 virus, this paper scrutinises factors that drive their mobility responses during the pandemic. Utilising Google mobility data, labour force statistics and daily COVID-19 data, this study finds that mobility changes are induced by various heterogeneous behavioural responses across provinces in Indonesia. Variations in the pre-pandemic labour structure, people’s perception of health risks and local policy settings define the mobility changes. In addition, behavioural responses are larger in the early pandemic phase, indicating the importance of arrangements to manage the situation in the early period.

Keywords: COVID-19; Google mobility; employment structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I19 O33 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06-09
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