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Learning Own Ability and Migration of the Young : Evidence from Thailand

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  • Yuichi kimura

    (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)

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Migrants from rural to urban areas in dvelopong countries are mostly young workers in their teens and twenties. Earlier migration is rational because migration involves investment in human capital. This study particularly addresses learning own ability. When one's own ability is unknown, larger return to ability increases the ex ante sbjective wage risk, while increasing the learning efficiency about own ability. That reduces the ex post subjective wage rise. Evidence from migrants to metropolitan areas of Thailand shows that the urban wage risk due to the reflection of unknown ability positively explains the mobility of young workers.

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  • Yuichi kimura, 2005. "Learning Own Ability and Migration of the Young : Evidence from Thailand," KIER Working Papers 605, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:kyo:wpaper:605
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    Keywords

    Migrants; Urban Labor Markets; Wage Risk; Unknown Ability; Learning;
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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