Poverty as Child Labor Internal Migration’s Determinant

Eva Nurwita ()

No 200912, Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) from Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University

Abstract: Migration is an unavoidable problem for economic development in third world countries. Indonesia is an archipelagic country with high viscosity of its population’s internal migration. Over flooding wave of internal migration from periphery region to the core of growth poles increases the spatial disparities between regions. Not only for the labor force at their productive age, empirical evidences revealed the fact that the wave also involved children to work as a child labor. This research tries to estimate how does poverty in periphery determines the wave of migration toward urban agglomeration region as their core. Using data from the Indonesian Census 2000 for Java Island, global spatial effect and local statistics was estimated by spatial econometrics method.

Keywords: Child Labor; Internal Migration; Spatial Econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 J13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-08, Revised 2009-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mig and nep-sea
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