Metadata record for Replication data for: Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia
113034
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Replication data for: Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia
113034
http://doi.org/10.3886/E113034V1
Samuel Bazzi
Arya Gaduh
Alexander D. Rothenberg
Maisy Wong
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Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Bazzi, Samuel, Gaduh, Arya, Rothenberg, Alexander D., and Wong, Maisy. Replication data for: Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113034V1
[Spatial Labor Allocation, Internal Migration, Comparative Advantage, Agricultural Adaptation]
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J43 Agricultural Labor Markets
J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Q13 Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to provide causal evidence on the role of location-specific human capital and skill transferability in shaping the spatial distribution of productivity. From 1979-1988, the Transmigration Program relocated two million migrants from rural Java and Bali to new rural settlements in the Outer Islands. Villages assigned migrants from regions with more similar agroclimatic endowments exhibit higher rice productivity and nighttime light intensity one to two decades later. We find some evidence of migrants' adaptation to agroclimatic change. Overall, our results suggest that regional productivity differences may overstate the potential gains from migration.
Indonesia
Village
Participants in Indonesia's Transmigration Program
[administrative records data, census/enumeration data, aggregate data]
Multiple sources (See Appendix A for more details)