This study explores the economic implications of rural-to-urban migration, as experienced by the low-income residents of Jakarta, Indonesia. Data on employment, occupation, and income of 2,435 heads of households from 22 settlements throughout the city are utilized. The objective in this analysis is to identify three dimensions of the migrant adjustment process: 1) the economic changes that resulted from cityward migration; 2) the migrant/nonmigrant economic differences in the population; and 3) the intraurban variation in the relative position of migrants.
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