Wage trends have become an increasingly important issue in the national economic and political scene in the 1990s. Deregulation and subsequent non-oil export growth have brought wage costs and trends sharply into focus, in comparison with developments among Indonesia's neighbours. The paper...

The article uses data from six West Java villages which were surveyed in 1976 and again in 1983 to examine the impact of temporary migration, mainly to urban areas, on the rural economy. It finds that despite substantial increases in rice production in the region in the years under discussion, a...