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Session

Thematic Session: Critical Minerals for the Clean Energy Transition (Streaming)
Location: B008
Session Chair: Joelle Noailly, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Session Chair: Gerard van der Meijden, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Presentation 4

The (Un)intended Consequences of Export Restrictions: Evidence from Indonesia

Maarten Bosker^1,3, Else-Marie van den Herik², Paul Pelzl⁴, Poelhekke Steven^2,3

1: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; 2: Virje Universiteit Amsterdam; 3: CEPR; 4: NHH Norwegian School of Economics

An increasing number of developing countries are restricting non-renewable natural resource exports to encourage domestic processing, move up the global value chain, and spur local development. This paper studies the local labor-market effects of Indonesia’s voluntary export ban on unprocessed nickel and bauxite in 2014, previously a major source of export revenue. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the timing of the ban, the opening of new processing facilities, and the location of Indonesia's mineral deposits, we find that - after an initial dip - major investments in nickel processing increased employment in nickel mining districts. New smelters drove structural change, shifting jobs from agriculture to mining and manufacturing. In sharp contrast, the ban only led to very limited investment in bauxite processing, causing bauxite production and local employment to fall. We also find that nickel processing raised mining employment in Indonesia's coal districts, which provide the main source of energy for nickel processing.