The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of the Minimum Wage, PDRB, and the Amount of Industry on the Absorption of Manpower in the Industrial Sector in the Madiun Residency in 2017-2020. This study uses quantitative research through secondary data from related agencies, namely the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of East Java Province. While the analytical method used is panel data regression analysis. Based on the results of the study, it shows that the minimum wage variable has a significant negative effect on the employment in the industrial sector in the Madiun Residency, PDRB has a significant positive effect on the employment in the industrial sector in the Madiun Residency and the Amount of Industry has a positive and insignificant effect on employment in the industrial sector in the Madiun Residency.

Abstract—The purpose of this research is to find out the role of E-commerce and digital literacy of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (UMKM) in Madiun district in helping the sale of their products during the covid-19 pandemic. This research is expected to help increase the participation of UMKM. This study uses qualitative descriptive research method with the population of UMKM in Madiun. The determination of samples in this study by the purposive sampling method. The data From 100 respondents was collected by field observation and supported by the dissemination of questionnaires. The collected data is analyzed descriptively-qualitatively. From the results of the analysis obtained that 71% of respondents can use and operate digital devices properly and use digital devices every day in daily life even during the Covid-19 pandemic. This shows that most actors UMKM has good digital literacy. Some of the respondents do sales or promotion of their products by not using E-commerce facilities but are more likely to use through direct sales that is offline. A total of 53% of respondents used E-commerce to help sales of their products and said that E-commerce helped UMKM during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Poverty alleviation and micro-small enterprises are the essential topics in discussing the paradigm of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Micro and small businesses are considered as a panacea to alleviate poverty. So the relationship between poverty and the existence of micro and small enterprises is theoretically unidirectional. In other words, if poverty increases, micro, and small enterprises will also increase. To see the effect of poverty on micro and small businesses, this study will use the Village Potential Data (Podes) 2018 with a total of 8559 villages/wards in Central Java Province. Apart from poverty, this study will also examine the effect of technology as represented by the number of electricity customers, health from the number of supporting health centers, and finally education represented by the number of Public Elementary Schools (SDN), State Junior High Schools (SMPN) and State Senior High Schools (SMAN). By using multiple regression models, an interesting relationship is found. Those that have a unidirectional relationship to micro and small enterprises are poverty, technology, health, and primary education (SDN). The role of education in the growth of micro and small businesses strengthens Duflo's thesis (2001) on the effect of education on reducing unemployment which earned him the Nobel Prize in 2019. Meanwhile, junior and secondary education for its effect on micro and small enterprises is negative. This showed that the impact of secondary education is that it provides the possibility to work in other sectors outside of micro and small enterprises