Socio-economic and demographic factors that influence the choice of employment in Southern Sumatera, Indonesia
| dc.contributor.author | Abdul Madjid Sariman, Tatang | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-04T02:48:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-11-04T02:48:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.description | PhD | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The decision of a respondent to either choose to work or not to work will be determined by socio-economic and demographic characteristics where the respective respondent lives. The study aims to identify the factors that contribute to decision making of the respondents with regard to work. This research utilized the 2000 Indonesia’s National Socio-Economic Survey data (SUSENAS 2000) and secondary data and STATA (Statistics Data Analysis) version 7.0 software in identifying socio-economic and demographic variables which affect the respondents’ decision making. This study selected nine important socio-economic and demographic variables towards ascertaining their respective correlation to the choice to work. The study shows that eight out of the nine variables such as education, place of residence, economic sector, health cost, work status, number of children, married status and migration status have positive correlation; while health facilities is not significant. The study finds that work status and residence are the most important variables for the decision making. In addition, the intermediate variables which have positive correlations to decision to work are: marriage status, duration of married, wage, allowance (non monetary), work hours, and seeking for a job. The study shows that married status and selecting for jobs are the most strongest. This study shows that the respondent’s probability to work is small for those respondents without any certificate of qualifications. The probability is high for those not been seeking for jobs or otherwise. According to both the full and the simple model, the amount of wages in the urban areas is four times higher than in the rural areas. This fact can encourage more people to migrate to urban areas to seek jobs. The most valuable outcome of the research is that “the curve of probability to work” highly correlates with the age of the first marriage. This curve is referred to as “tams curve”. The most dominant variables to influence the choice of employment are: residence, married status, migration status, seeking jobs, education, and age of the first marriage. Other variables which are also important but of less significance are health facilities, health cost and allowance. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/332 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Humanities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Socio-economic | en_US |
| dc.subject | Employment | en_US |
| dc.title | Socio-economic and demographic factors that influence the choice of employment in Southern Sumatera, Indonesia | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Identification, analysis and implications | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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