Poverty as Child Labor Internal Migration’s Determinant

Eva Nurwita ()
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Eva Nurwita: Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University

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: O15 J13 C31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mig and nep-sea
Date: 2009-08, Revised 2009-08

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