1984; Hartiningsih 2000; Hugo 2000;

1984; Hartiningsih 2000; Hugo 2000; Sylvie and Elmhirst 2003) and investigates
whether migrant women in Greater Jakarta are overrepresented in elementary
occupations, primarily working as domestic workers.
We also investigate current employment outcomes using logistic regression.
We define two dependent variables examined in separate models. First, using all
females in the sample, we predict the likelihood of being employed. Second,
among the subsample of women who were currently working, we model the predictors
of working in elementary occupations. Our primary objective is to see
whether migration status predicts the likelihood of women working in low occupational
categories, after controlling for other variables including education level,
marital status, and fertility. To overcome the problem of simultaneity between
individual’s education level and age at migration, we ran three alternate submodels
with father’s education being substituted for the individual’s education in one
of them. We argue that father’s education is a good proxy of socioeconomic background
and accordingly of an individual’s educational outcomes.