Project's Details

Title: Dynamic Models of Transitions in the Indonesian Labour and Marriage Markets

PI: Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Provost's Chair Professor, Department of Sociology; and Founding Director of CFPR, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS; and Asia Research Institute's Research Leader of Changing Family in Asia Cluster, NUS

Co-PI: Associate Professor Jussi Keppo, Dean's Chair and Research Director of Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, NUS Business School

International Collaborators: Professor John Ham, Global Network Professor of Economics, NYU Wagner and Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Professor John Strauss, Department of Economics and Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California; and Dr Firman Witoelar, Director of Research, SurveyMeter

Amount: S$652,237

Completed: 31 August 2020

Abstract

This project will estimate dynamic models of the labour and marriage markets for Indonesia. Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), the study proposes to estimate empirical models describing:
1) transitions between employment in the formal and informal sectors;
2) transitions between being married and not being married;
3) transitions into retirement; and,
4) transitions between living in one’s own home town and another area.