Determinants of Internal Migration in Indonesia

Hera Susanti and Hera Susanti ()
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Hera Susanti: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia

No 201505, Working Papers in Economics and Business from Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia

Abstract: We analyse the behavior of internal migration in Indonesia and estimate factors influenced the migrants’s decision to return. We adopt the international migration model to estimate the duration periods of the Indonesian internal migration. The characteristic variables are developed from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) data within period of 1993-2007, while the control variables are using various regional data fron the National Statistical Bureau of Statistics. The main conclusion indicates that the return decision was mainly influenced by the opportunity to increase migrant welfares. Hence, migrants’s characteristic and education level proved to affect the duration. The migrants’s engagement to their family and community was remain strong, and even stronger if the status of the home region was rural area. The duration also tends to be longer after the implementation of regional autonomy.

Keywords: Migration Duration; Internal Migration; Return Migration; Survival Analysis; IFLS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2015-10, Revised 2015-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-dev, nep-mig, nep-net and nep-sea
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