Good mine, bad mine: Natural resource heterogeneity and Dutch disease in Indonesia

Paul Pelzl and Steven Poelhekke

No 18-073/VIII, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: We analyse the local effect of exogenous shocks to the value of mineral deposits at the district level in Indonesia using a panel of manufacturing plants. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to model and estimate the effect of heterogeneity in natural resource extraction methods. We find that in areas where mineral extraction is relatively capital-intensive, mining booms cause virtually no upward pressure on manufacturing earnings per worker, and both producers of traded and local goods benefit from mining booms in terms of employment. In contrast, labour-intensive mining booms drive up local manufacturing wages such that producers of traded goods reduce employment. This source of heterogeneity helps to explain the mixed evidence for `Dutch disease' effects in the literature. In addition, we find no evidence that fiscal revenue sharing between sub-national districts leads to any spillovers.

Keywords: Dutch disease; natural resources; mining; labour intensity; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L16 L72 O12 O13 Q30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-09-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-env, nep-lab and nep-sea
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://papers.tinbergen.nl/18073.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Good mine, bad mine: Natural resource heterogeneity and Dutch disease in Indonesia (2021)
Working Paper: Good mine, bad mine: Natural resource heterogeneity and Dutch disease in Indonesia (2020)
Working Paper: Good Mine, Bad Mine: Natural Resource Heterogeneity and Dutch Disease in Indonesia (2018)
Working Paper: Good mine, bad mine: Natural resource heterogeneity and Dutch disease in Indonesia (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tin:wpaper:20180073

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tinbergen Office +31 (0)10-4088900 ().