This paper reviews the literature on economic change in rice-growing areas in Java in the 1970s and focuses on the extent to which the Green Revolution and commercialization of agriculture contributed to labour displacement and inequalities in wealth and income.

Employment generation has been a challenge in Indonesia since the Asian financial crisis, especially in labor-intensive manufacturing. Drawing on work by James and Fujita (2000), this paper examines the impact of exports on jobs, based on an analysis of input–output tables over the period...