The Effect Of Sectoral Economic Tranformation On Employment Absorption And Poverty Level In The West Nusa Tenggara Province

West Nusa Tenggara is a progressive province from an underdeveloped region to develop as one of the national food barns, and is able to reduce poverty rates by an average of 1% per year for 10 years from 23.81% in March 2008 to 14.75% in March 2018, and increase the position of the Human Development Index from rate 32 to 26. The Inferential Statistics Method used in the data an alysis of this
study is WarpPLS, involving three exogenous variables (primary sector economic transformation, secondary sector econ omic transformation,tertiary sector economic transformation), one endogenous intervening variable (labor), and one pure endogenous variable (numb er poverty).
The results of this study are that the transformation of the primary sector has a significant eff ect on employment in NTB Province, changes in the primary sector have an effect on employment, which means that if productivity in the primary sector increases, it causes an increase in the number of workers in the primary sector. The transformation of the secondary sector has a significant effect on employment in the province of West Nusa Tenggara so that the transformation of the secondary sector affects employment. The results of the seco ndary sector analysis are lower than the primary sector, which means that the workforce that is accommodated in this sector has a lower percentage because the secondary sector has capital-intensive characteristics and workers are required to have special skills. The transformation of the tertiary sector has a significant effect on employment in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, changes in the tertiary sector affect employment, which means that an increase in productivity in the tertiary sector will increase the number of workers. The numb er of workers absorbed from production activities in the tertiary sector because most of the regions in West Nusa Tenggara Province are tourist attractions and workers who work in this sector are not required to have special skills and tend to be labor intensive. Worker absorption has a significant
negative effect on poverty levels, that the increase in the number of workers absorbed in various sectors has an impact on po verty reduction in West Nusa Tenggara Province.

Keywords: Economic Sector Transformation, Labor Absorption, Poverty Rat e