Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memahami pola people follow jobs atau pola jobs follow people yang terjadi di Indonesia Barat dan Indonesia Timur. Pola tersebut digambarkan melalui hubungan timbal balik antara migrasi masuk dengan jumlah orang bekerja di masing-masing kota kabupaten di kedua region tersebut dengan metode estimasi Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS). Kesimpulan penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa pola people follow jobs lebih dominan terjadi dibandingkan pola jobs follow people baik di Indonesia Barat dan Indonesia Timur.

This research aim to understand the pattern of whether people follow jobs or jobs follow people which occur in Western and Eastern part of Indonesia. The pattern is described by causal relationship between in migration and number of employed people in each city or district in those regions using Two Stage Least Squares estimation method. The result of this paper shows that effect of people follow jobs is more dominant compared to jobs follow people effect in both regions.