Lukas R. Wibowo, Maharani Hapsari, Rini Astuti, Eusebius Pantja Pramudya, Digby Race, Dewi Ratna Kurniasari, Ismatul Hakim - UNU-WIDER, 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
This study examines how, why, and under what conditions marginalized women of customary communities can contribute and gain access to the benefits of the social forestry programme.
We found that customary communities’ dependence on forest resources creates a structure that divides labour...
Gindo Tampubolon - UNU-WIDER, 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
Building on Rawls’ theory of justice and Sen’s theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability.
Social justice holds when inequality is responded to by rules that afford more...
Arief Anshory Yusuf, Kyunghoon Kim - UNU-WIDER, 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
According to the World Bank, Indonesia has reached the upper-middle income status in 2019 after spending almost two decades in the lower-middle income country group. Despite the setback of COVID-19 the Indonesian government aspires to become a ‘developed’ country by 2045, when...
– A new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation
Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf - UNU-WIDER, 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
Various scholars have estimated levels of intergenerational mobility in OECD countries. Fewer estimates are available for developing countries, where mobility arguably matters more due to starker differences in living standards.
This paper presents new estimates of mobility for a developing...
Kyunghoon Kim, Andy Sumner - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Discussions on the developing world's industrial policies have largely neglected the role of state-owned entities. This paper argues that the resurgence of state capitalism has been, in part, the response of developing countries to the recent pattern of structural transformation involving...
Ervin Dervisevic, Maria C. Lo Bue, Elizaveta Perova - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
Is maternal employment beneficial or harmful for child development? Maternal employment generates income, which is needed to provide core inputs for children’s health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time spent with children, which is also a critical input...
This paper analyses the labour market dynamics in Indonesia from 2001 to 2015 and explores the role of the changing nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period.
First, we find evidence of a disproportionate increase in the returns to...
Olivier Bargain, Maria C. Lo Bue, Flaviana Palmisano - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
We suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess inter-generational mobility. It accommodates different types of outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic improvements of such outcomes at different points of the...
Niken Kusumawardhani, Rezanti Pramana, Nurmala Saputri, Daniel Suryadarma - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
Greater female labour market participation has important positive implications not only for women’s empowerment and the well-being of their families but also for the economy they live in. In this paper, we examine the various effects of internet availability on women’s labour market...
Maria C. Lo Bue, Flaviana Palmisano - Oxford Bulletin of Economics And Statistics , 2020
The canonical approach to analyse the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth.
Measurement tools endorsing this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamic in the population: there can be groups of the population made...
Mayang Rizky, Daniel Suryadarma, Asep Suryahadi - UNU-WIDER, 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
We use long-spanning individual longitudinal data to examine the long-term labour market outcomes of low-tier informal workers. We investigate their characteristics, calculate the extent of switching, and identify the characteristics of those who have switched. Finally, we estimate the earnings...
– Are factors outside individual responsibility persistent over time?
Rajius Idzalika, Maria C. Lo Bue - Journal of Development Studies, 2020 - London, United KIngdom
Not all sources of inequality in educational achievements are fair. But how strong and persistent is the burden of unequal opportunities that each person carries on in their life?
In this paper, we define individual indices of the burden of circumstances, which measure the effect that the...
Kyunghoon Kim, Arriya Mungsunti, Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf - UNU-WIDER, 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
We focus on special characteristics of the manufacturing sector, in terms of employment generation and productivity growth, that enable the rapid, resilient economic catch-up of developing countries.
We consider the ‘developer’s dilemma’ and the relationship between...
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