Intersectoral Labor Mobility and Earnings Differentials in Urban Labor Markets: A Case Study of Slum Dwellers in Bangkok (Formal Sector, Informal Sector, Rural-Urban Migration; Thailand)

This study investigates the slum dwellers' labor market behavior and the outcomes of the labor market processes in Bangkok. The study assumes the dualistic structure of the labor market in which labor mobility takes place. In less developed countries, rural-urban migration is viewed to contribute to the increase in urban unemployment rates and slum growth. The analytical model of rural-urban migration suggests that rural migrants will be unemployed while looking for employment in the formal sector and after their unsuccessful job search in that sector, will come to terms with the informal sector employment. This model maintains that the probability of rural migrants obtaining employment in the formal sector is a function of the urban unemployment rate. Further, with the limited resources, they are presumed to take shelter in slums and to be absorbed into the urban poor group which is viewed to have its own subculture labeled as "culture of poverty".

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Labor and Industrial Relations

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Siengthai, Sununta

• Economics, Labor

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8422156

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71542