2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Disapperarance of surplus labor in agriculture and changes in income inequality: an analysis using individual farm survey data
Project/Area Number |
23580303
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Agro-economics
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Research Institution | Kobe University |
Principal Investigator |
HONDAI Susumu 神戸大学, 国際協力研究科, 名誉教授 (70138569)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAMURA Kazutoshi 長崎県立大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (40304084)
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Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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Keywords | 所得格差 / 過剰就業 / 限界労働生産性 / 労働分配率 / 農業賃金率 / 実質農業賃金率 / 貧困ライン / 貧困世帯 |
Research Abstract |
We looked at a variation in provincial development phases of Indonesia and tries to investigate a long-run development process from it. The variation will generate a long-run time series data for the provinces as a whole and enable us to look at her experiences. Income inequality in Indonesia has been widening since 1999 and any sign of its improvement has not seen yet. But our analysis of real agricultural wage rates, marginal productivities of agricultural worker and shares of the poor household by province indicate that Bali passed already the turning point from labor surplus to labor shortage economy. Its income inequality started to decline after it passed the turning point. Our analysis shows as follows: Firstly income inequality will deteriorate at an early stage of eco-nomic development. Secondly it will keep deteriorating until an economy passes the turning point. Finally it starts to improve after an economy passes the turning point.
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Research Products
(18 results)