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The determinants of internal migration in a developing country: quantitative evidence for Indonesia, 1930-2000

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  • Jelle van Lottum

    (Department of Geography [Cambridge, UK] - CAM - University of Cambridge [UK])

  • Daan Marks

    (International Institute of Social History - International Institute of Social History)

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This study specifies and estimates a gravity model for interprovincial migration in Indonesia. Analyzing five cross-sections for Indonesia's 26 provinces for 5 survey years between 1930 and 2000 we show that throughout the twentieth century economic factors were more important in the explanation of interprovincial migration patterns in Indonesia than planned migration policy aimed at the redistribution of the population. In addition, our regression analysis demonstrates that the urban primacy of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, had a strong effect on the direction and size of migration flows. Our findings thus suggest that the costly government-supported migration is not very successful and that a strongly centralized government induces migration flows to the capital. These findings have policy implications for other developing countries.

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  • Jelle van Lottum & Daan Marks, 2011. "The determinants of internal migration in a developing country: quantitative evidence for Indonesia, 1930-2000," Post-Print hal-00719482, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00719482
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.591735
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