Are experience and schooling complementary? evidence from migrants' assimilation in the Bangkok labor market

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.coverage.countryThailand
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TH
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionOceania
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.06.007en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archive
cg.issn0304-3878en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalJournal of Development Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume74en
dc.contributor.authorYamauchi, Futoshien
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T12:50:47Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-24T12:50:47Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/157565
dc.titleAre experience and schooling complementary? evidence from migrants' assimilation in the Bangkok labor marketen
dcterms.abstractThis paper models the assimilation process of migrants and shows evidence of the complementarity between their destination experience and upon-arrival human capital. Bayesian learning is assessed, using panel data of wages from Bangkok, Thailand. It is found that (i) schooling returns are lower for migrants than for natives, (ii) the accumulation of destination experience raises wages for migrants, (iii) the experience effect is greater for more educated agents and (iv) the complementarity increases as destination experience accumulates. The results imply that more educated migrants have higher learning efficiency and can perform tasks of greater complexity, ultimately yielding higher wage growth in the destination market. -- Author's Abstracten
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationYamauchi, Futoshi. 2004. Are experience and schooling complementary? evidence from migrants' assimilation in the Bangkok labor market. Journal of Development Economics 74(2): 489-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.06.007en
dcterms.extentpp. 489-513en
dcterms.issued2004-08
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/1727en
dcterms.subjectschoolsen
dcterms.subjectmigrantsen
dcterms.subjectlabour marketen
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectrural urban relationsen
dcterms.subjectremunerationen
dcterms.subjecteducationen
dcterms.subjectexperiential learningen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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