Indonesian Living Standards

Strauss, John; Beegle, Kathleen; Dwiyanto, Agus; Herawati, Yulia; Pattinasarany, Daan; Satriawan, Elan; Sikoki, Bondan; Sukamdi,; Witoelar, Firman

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“…Following (Strauss, Beegle, Dwiyanto, Herawati, Pattinasarany, Satriawan, Sikoki, Sukamdi, and Witoelar, 2004), we compute hourly wages on the basis of monthly reported earnings divided by the total hours worked last week multiplied by 4.33. We top code individuals who reported working more than a total of 126 hours per week to 126 (assuming a maximum work load of 18 hours per day for 7 days a week) and only include individuals with positive earnings in both years 7 .…”

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Natural disasters and labor markets

Kirchberger

2017

Journal of Development Economics

108

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Abstract:While it is clear that natural disasters have serious welfare consequences for affected populations, less is known with respect to how local labor markets in low income countries adjust to such large shocks, in particular the general equilibrium effects of the increase in the demand for construction as well as the inflow of resources in the aftermath of natural disasters. Building on the literature on local labor markets (Moretti, 2010a,b), this paper investigates whether there is evidence that changes in the relative prices of non-tradable to tradable goods induced by a demand shock due to a natural disaster lead to a reallocation of employment and wage premia across sectors. Combining data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and the US Geological Survey we study the effect of earthquakes on local labor markets in Indonesia. We find evidence for sectoral reallocation of workers as well as significant and persistent wage premia. Employment in the construction sector increases significantly and contracts in the agriculture sector in the two years after an earthquake takes place in a community. There appear to be substantial labor market rigidities since even after sectoral mobility has taken place, individuals employed in sectors producing non-tradable goods experience significantly higher wage growth in communities that were struck by an earthquake. These effects are homogenous along the quantiles of the conditional income growth distribution. Thereby, they neutralize otherwise occurring differential earnings growth patterns across sectors and operate as pure location shifts of the income distribution rather than altering the shape.

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Natural disasters and labor markets

Kirchberger

2017

Journal of Development Economics

108

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“…A discussion of sampling and survey methods for IFLS2 and IFLS3 can be found in Frankenberg and Thomas (2000) and Strauss et al (2004), respectively. measures of height for age z-scores could be calculated (3674 and 3932 children, respectively).…”

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“…We do not believe this to be likely, however, because there was a significant decline in other health services provided by the Posyandu over the period from 1997 to 2000. Strauss et al (2004) report that provision of Oralit, an oral rehydration treatment for diarrhea, had decreased 9.4 percent by 2000 and child growth monitoring services were 14.1 percent lower than in 1997. Nonetheless, the community and facility survey information from 1997 and 2000 allows us to examine whether the duration of exposure to the PMT was systematically related to changes in other programs implemented through midwives, the Puskesmas or Posyandu and available in pre-and/or post-crisis years.…”

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“…The Government of Indonesia's policy response to the East Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998 is one such example. 3 While there is ample evidence that the nutritional status of young children did not decline in Indonesia in the wake of the 1997/98 financial crisis (e.g., Block et al, 2004;Frankenberg et al, 1999;Strauss et al, 2004;Thomas and Frankenberg, 2007), research as to whether specific policies can be credited with helping to avert negative consequences to nutritional status is relatively sparse. 4 By improving our understanding of how Indonesia's policy response affected child nutritional outcomes, this paper aims to offer lessons for policymakers both in Indonesia and in other economies with vulnerable populations.…”

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Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis: evidence from Indonesia

Giles¹,

Satriawan²

2010

Policy Research Working Papers

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 percent declines in rates of moderate and severe stunting, respectively, for children aged 12 to 24 months who were exposed to the program for at least 12 months over two years.JEL Classification: I12, I18, O15, O20, O22

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“…The bulk of the existing literature on household poverty in Indonesia focuses on the financial crisis of the late 1990s. See Frankenberg, Thomas and Beegle (1999), Skoufias and Suryahadi (2000), Suryahadi, Sumarto and Pritchett (2003), Strauss et al (2004) and Suryahadi and Sumarto (2005) for more information and empirical evidence.…”

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Social Policies in Indonesia

Comola

Mello

2010

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03291158 ABSTRACT Enhancing the effectiveness of social policies in IndonesiaIndonesia has made considerable progress over the years in improving the social conditions of its population, especially among disadvantaged groups, not least by raising government spending and strengthening social protection programmes. Nevertheless, in some respects social outcomes remain subpar in relation to regional peers. In particular: A rapid increase over the years in government expenditure on education has yet to deliver marked improvements in student performance, which is somewhat weaker than in comparator countries. Enrolment is particularly low in secondary education, suggesting the need to improve the transition from primary to higher levels of education. Efforts are also needed to enhance the quality of teaching. Indonesia will need to at least sustain current levels of education spending in relation to GDP over the longer term to ensure durable improvements in outcomes. Government spending on health care and utilisation rates are lower than in comparator countries. Outcomes are also comparatively poor. As in the case of education, regional discrepancies in the health status of the population are narrowing, possibly due in part to the decentralisation of service delivery since the early 2000s. A publicly funded health insurance plan was launched in 2005 to protect vulnerable individuals against the risk of falling into poverty as a result of illness. The programme is being expanded to cover the entire targeted population of very poor, poor and nearpoor individuals. Indonesia has a number of social-assistance programmes for protecting vulnerable groups against adverse income shocks in periods of crisis. These programmes are reasonably well targeted, but there is considerable room for improvement. Social protection has been strengthened since 2005 with the implementation of government-funded conditional cash transfers and community-based development programmes. Emphasis is now shifting from crisis mitigation towards an extension of the coverage of unconditional and conditional income support. The main challenge in this area is to extend social protection, especially through social security, to informal-sector workers, while strengthening co-ordination and seeking synergies among the existing programmes. RESUMÉ Renforcer l'efficacité des politiques sociales en IndonésieAu fil des années, l'Indonésie a réalisé des progrès considérables dans l'amélioration des conditions sociales de sa population, notamment des groupes défavorisés, surtout en augmentant les dépenses publiques et en renforçant les programmes de protection sociale. Néanmoins, les résultats restent à certains égards en deçà de ceux enregistrés par d'autres pays de niveau comparable dans la région. En particulier : L'augmentation rapide au fil des années des dépenses publiques d'éducation ne s'est pas encore traduite par des améliorations marquées des résultats des élèves, qui restent un peu moins bons que dans les pays de comparaison. La scolarisation est ...

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Indonesian Living Standards

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Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis: evidence from Indonesia

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