<![CDATA[Labor mobility can enable a person to get out of poverty. This research is focused on knowing the impact of poverty and individual and household characteristics on inter-sector mobility patterns in Jambi Province. By using data from the 2019-2022 Jambi National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) that cover 289 respondents, this study applies multinomial regression models. The results of the analysis show that low-income workers tend to move to the same sector as their origin. In this study, poverty status has a significant negative effect when workers move from the industrial and service sectors to the agricultural sector. This means that the opportunity for poor workers in Jambi Province to move from the industrial sector to agriculture decreased by 7.9% compared to high-income workers. On the other hand, low-income workers can actually move between sectors easily, especially to the agricultural sector of oil palm plantations whose prices have been rising since 2019. The government is expected to optimize the downstream processing of palm oil so that it absorbs more workers who have wages below the line household poverty. Meanwhile, low-income workers in the industrial and service sectors must be provided with capacity building training through the government and the private sector in order to obtain better wage rates.]]>
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