This study is intended to explore the intentions to migrate of a group of migrants from urban Java and Kalimantan, Indonesia, using a framework based on Place-Utility/Migration Intentions Model. Because this study explores the intentions of urban residents, several new variables were specified including: urban employment sector (formal and informal) as an individual background factor, difference in city settings as a structural background factor, and job satisfaction as a place-utility variable. Migration intentions to be explained consist of intentions "to stay", "to leave", and "be undecided". / Using multinomial logit technique, this study found that the inclusion of these variables in this model was very useful. Differences in urban settings and type of urban employment sector were found to be the most influential variables. Job satisfaction is an important predictor and functions as an intervening variable between urban employment sector, income and migration intentions. Other variables examined in the model such as education, employment status in the place of origin, duration of stay in the city, and income level were found as important individual background factors. Values expected from the city as a place utility variable in the model was an important intervening variable between marital status and migration intentions, and between the type of sector engaged in by migrants and migration intentions. / In Java, migrants are inclined to leave the city due to their participation in the urban informal sector, having a rural job waiting, being married, and low levels of education. On the contrary, migrants in Kalimantan are inclined to stay in the city or being undecided because of preference for urban life-style, participation in the formal sector jobs, having older age, and lower education levels. / This study demonstrates the utility of this model and suggests that prediction of migration intentions should take into account differences in employment sector, job satisfaction, and setting. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2763. / Major Professor: Peter L. Doan. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76950 |
| Contributors | Keban, Yeremias Torontuan., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 181 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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