Judul: Konvergensi Penyerapan Tenaga Kerja Antarkabupaten/kota di Provinsi Jawa Barat
Abstrak: For 13 years running the regional autonomy policy has not been able to reduce income inequality among districts/cities in West Java Province. This inequality has an impact on inequality in employment. The purpose of this study is to analyze the convergence process of employment in West Java during 2008-2012. Based on economic growth and unemployment rate mapping result, there is a movement of each region position in 2008 and 2012. This study resulted in an average index of inequality of employment is 0,61 from 2008 to 2012. These results do not correspond with panel data analysis where the coefficients of lagged dependent coefficient value is 0.6720 which is less than one means there is a process of convergence employment with 39.74 percent of the speed of convergence. The results also show that all variables are estimated positive effect to employment level except wages
Keyword: Convergence., Employment Inequality, Panel Data

Judul: Convergence and the Factors that Influence Regional Inequality of District Level in Java
Abstrak: Pulau Jawa merupakan wilayah yang menjadi pusat pemerintahan sekaligus perekonomian di Indonesia dengan perkembangan yang pesat sehingga menyebabkan bias pembangunan Jawa – luar Jawa semakin besar. Pelaksanaan desentralisasi fiskal menempatkan kebijakan fiskal pada level kabupaten/kota pada posisi penting dalam upaya pengembangan wilayah yang lebih luas dan konstelasi kota-kota sekitarnya. Kondisi ekonomi yang bersifat struktural di setiap daerah juga dikaitkan dengan beragamnya faktor endowment yang dimiliki setiap daerah, yang dapat memicu terjadinya ketimpangan antar wilayah. Dinamika pendapatan antar wilayah selama ini dianalisis dengan menggunakan data PDRB yang menunjukkan potensi daerah dalam proses produksi. Data ini kurang dapat merepresentasikan kemampuan masyarakatnya dalam mencapai kesejahteraan. Analisis konvergensi wilayah berdasarkan data tersebut perlu dibandingkan dengan melihat pendapatan masyarakat, yang diproksi dengan menggunakan pendekatan pengeluaran rumah tangga. Penelitian ini pada intinya bertujuan (1) menggambarkan ketimpangan wilayah di Pulau Jawa; (2) menguji konvergensi wilayah kabupaten/kota dan membandingkan fenomena konvergensi antar provinsi di Pulau Jawa dikaji dari pendekatan pendapatan regional dan pendekatan pengeluaran rumah tangga; dan (3) menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi ketimpangan wilayah di Pulau Jawa. Ruang lingkup penelitian adalah seluruh kabupaten/kota di Pulau Jawa kecuali DKI Jakarta, dengan menggabungkan daerah-daerah pemekaran untuk menjamin konsistensi data sehingga analisis penelitian diagregasi menjadi 105 wilayah. Periode waktu penelitian adalah 9 tahun, mulai dari diimplementasikannya desentralisasi fiskal yaitu dari tahun 2001 – 2009., Java is the centre of governance and also economic activity, so then its growth is faster than other islands in Indonesia. Implementation of fiscal decentralization policy since 2001 placing the district government as the important position on regional growth. The purpose of this study is analyse the income convergency using Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) and household expenditure. Those two proxy variable was used to compare convergency. The result finds that no income convergency when using GDRP, meanwhile there is convergency process when using household expenditure with FD-GMM estimation technique. The biggest speed of convergence for provinces in Java happened in West Java, that was influenced on manufacture sector. Applying static panels, we obtain that Java income inequality is affected by manufacture share, labour education rate, number of public health centre, electricity energy and water infrastructure. On the other hand, increasing household expenditure is only affected by a rise of labour education.
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Judul: Mud Crab’s (Scylla serrata Forskal 1775) Response to Different Decaying Level of Gold Snail (Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck 1822) Bait.
Abstrak: Mud crab is well known as omnivorous-vigorous-voracious-opportunistic-scavenger. These intertidal animals applies mainly chemoreception in their predatory behaviour. It has been commonly assumed that non fresh gold snail bait is better than fresh bait in stimulating the mud crab. This research's aim is to analyze mud crab response to different decaying level of gold snail bait. Their response were observed as time required to touch the bait and pattern and direction of the mud crab in approaching the baits. The different decaying level of gold snail baits were shown on Total Volatile Base Nitrogen (TVBN) as 16.3 mg/100g (0 day); 534.1 mg/100g (3 days); and 887.4 mg/100g (6 days). The research was conducted from July 2009 until February 2011. The TVBN test for gold snail baits were conducted at Laboratory of BBPPHP Jakarta. The experiment was conducted in Pemalang. The result showed that the average period of mud crabs to touch the baits were 52.14 minutes; 61.57 minutes and 52.57 minutes. Anova test concluded no sufficient evidence of significant effect of TVBN content of gold snail bait on mud crab’s feeding behaviour. Movement pattern B, i.e. left and right deviation followed by straight forward movement to the bait, was commonly exhibited by the crabs. Consequences of time period required by the mud crab to approach the bait on fishing operation is discussed.
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