The Indonesian Rural Economy: Mobility, Work, and Enterprise. Edited By Thomas R. Leinbach. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xix, 316 pp. 30.00/S30.00/S 30.00/S39.90 (paper) (original) (raw)

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2005

Abstract

The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) in Indonesia has increasingly attracted a significant amount of research. In Indonesia this is especially true after the severe contraction in the economy after the 1997 financial and economic crisis. The economic crisis has had a devastating impact on income. As Duncan Thomas and James Smith et al. have noted (“Wages, Employment, and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Indonesia,” papers 00–07, RAND–Labor and Population Program, 2000), the drama of the crisis actually lies in the drop of real hourly earnings, which in one ...

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