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

Yuichi Kimura ()

No 605, KIER Working Papers from Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Migrants; Urban Labor Markets; Wage Risk; Unknown Ability; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 J24 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28pages
Date: 2005-07
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