2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study on post-over urbanization and inter-regional migration of labor force in Thailand

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20500888
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Geography
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	HINO Masateru Tohoku University, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (30156608)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	タイ / 労働力移動 / 新規学卒者 / 都市化
Research Abstract	Career destinations of new graduates of secondary and tertiary schools around Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand were surveyed. As a result, the following findings were gotten : (1)A large part of graduates of secondary schools were going on tertiary schools such as university and colleges. (2)The ratio of graduates going on tertiary schools was already in the level at the advanced country. (3)The largest part of new graduates of universities got jobs in Chiang Mai and other regions in Northern Thailand. (4)Next, a large number of new graduates found their jobs in the Bangkok metropolitan area. In this respect, the tertiary educational institutes could be pointed out to play the role of sending off new educated workers to the Bangkok metropolitan area.

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