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Rural-urban migration and employment quality: A case study from Thailand

Published by: ADB

This study investigates the effects of rural–urban migration on economic development in Thailand. It draws upon a panel database of 2,000 rural households collected from 2008 to 2010 in three provinces from Northeast Thailand and a survey of 650 migrants in the Greater Bangkok area conducted in 2010. The study offers some new findings on migration in Thailand. First, there is evidence of a need for better social protection for urban migrants. Second, the study shows that migration benefits income growth for rural households but is less effective in reducing inequality and relative poverty in rural areas. Generally, migrants are more educated albeit at an overall low education level in the rural areas. The message emerging from this paper is that poor rural households tend to produce poor migrants which could be one of the reasons for the continuous existence of a wide rural–urban divide in welfare. The crucial importance of good quality education for migrants to achieve higher quality employment calls for more investment in education quality in rural areas.

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  • Foreign workers in country
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  • Local workers abroad
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Asian Development Bank6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City 1550 Metro Manila, Philippineswww.adb.org/economics

ရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်း) Amare, Mulubrhan
ရေးသားသူ (အဖွဲ့) Asian Development Bank
ပူးတွဲရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ) Hohfeld, Lena; Jitsuchon, Somchai; Waibel, Hermann
ISSN နံပါတ် 16555252
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေရာ Manila, Philippines
ထုတ်ဝေသူ Asian Development Bank
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2012
စာမျက်နှာခွဲ 27
အဓိကစကားလုံးများ Rural,Urban,Employment Quality
တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇွန် 24, 2015, 20:52 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ စက်တင်ဘာ 16, 2020, 07:00 (UTC)