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Income disparity among high-risk job workers of across-cities across-provinces autobus drivers in South Sumatera, Indonesia

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  • PAISAL P.

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Sriwijaya)

  • TARMIZI NURLINA

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Sriwijaya)

  • SYAMSURIJAL A.K.

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Sriwijaya)

  • SOEBYAKTO BAMBANG BEMBY

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Sriwijaya)

Abstract

This study analysed the income disparity among the high-risk job of inter-city inter-province bus drivers in South Sumatera. The high number of road accident showed that inter-city inter-province autobus drivers’ job is a high-risk job. High-risk jobs should be compensated with high salary. In this study, primary and secondary data were analyzed. Saturated sampling technique was used involving 71 intra-Sumatera bus drivers and 125 Sumatera-Java bus drivers to participate in this study. The result of analysis of Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition that there is income disparity among the bus drivers which is caused by the three endowments that were facilities, environment, and compensation. There were two factors that divides the income disparity into two categories; value of factors causing the disparity at 38.993 and unexplainable factors at 2.728. The total of the income disparity was -41.159.

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  • Paisal P. & Tarmizi Nurlina & Syamsurijal A.K. & Soebyakto Bambang Bemby, 2017. "Income disparity among high-risk job workers of across-cities across-provinces autobus drivers in South Sumatera, Indonesia," Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, CyberLeninka;Редакция журнала Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, vol. 61(1), pages 127-136.
    • Handle: RePEc:scn:031261:16967541
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