Rural employment creation in Java

Abstract

Suggests that even in densely populated Java, rapid agricultural growth has been accompanied by increased employment in agriculture and an important issue in labor absorption has been the distribution of job opportunities rather than their level per se. Argues that, at least until the early 1980s, agricultural growth has had quite weak linkages with nonagricultural employment creation. A distinct urban bias has in fact existed in new job creation related to the concentration of investment and consumer spending flowing from the oil and resources boom in urban areas and to an import substitution-oriented pattern of industrialization. -from Author Show more