fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

This paper analyses the labour market dynamics in Indonesia from 2001 to 2015 and explores the role of the changing … nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

conditions were mixed. The unemployment rate fell, and the mix of employment by occupations, economic sector, and education … improved slightly. However, the employment mix by occupational position deteriorated, and the share of registered workers and …-crisis levels. Most poverty and inequality indicators fell over the period. …

2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country …'s paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that …

evaluate the dynamics of the poverty impact of growth in Indonesia, by comparing the 1993-2000, 2000-07, and 2007-14 growth …The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the …

lower tier jobs, though the importance of wage-employment is larger in Indonesia. There are more workers in formal wage-employment …We examine the nature of labour market inequality in Indonesia and India, using a common conceptual approach drawing … from the job ladder framework. In the framework, we differentiate between self-employment and wage-informal and between …