The authors explain changes in rural cottage industry employment by means of a Central Javanese case study of the rural tile industry. It demonstrates that a decline in employment in this industry, despite a favourable rural industrial environment, is largely due to transition from...

The authors aim at building a model of a padi-producing household which can be used to derive elasticity estimates relevant to the debate about appropriate rice-pricing policies in Indonesia. This model is applied to the village Cibuyur in Central Java. An important finding of this study is that...