Open AccessPENGANGGURAN STRUKTURAL: FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI DAN DINAMIKANYA
Author(s) -
Tarsidin Tarsidin
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 2460-9196
DOI - 10.21098/bemp.v11i3.336
Subject(s) - unemployment , economics , structural unemployment , labour economics , productivity , wage , indonesian , structural change , efficiency wage , full employment , macroeconomics , linguistics , philosophy
This paper investigates the persistence of unemployment in Indonesia, by decomposing unemployment into structural and cyclical unemployment and exploring its determinants and dynamics. The result shows that currently Indonesia is experiencing structural unemployment, which is caused by structural change of Indonesian economy. Factors contributing to the structural unemployment include sectoral labor productivity and sectoral real wage, beside specific skill required by the sectors. The study reveals the need for a good economic planning to avoid unemployment in the future.JEL Classification: J21, J23, J31Keywords: Structural unemployment, labor productivity, real wage