Nonmarket networks among migrants: evidence from metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand

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dc.creatorYamauchi, Futoshi
dc.date2003
dc.date2024-10-24T12:52:33Z
dc.date2024-10-24T12:52:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:37:12Z
dc.descriptionThis paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved from the same province of origin. Our empirical results, which control origin fixed effects, time-fixed effects, and origin/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size effect becomes positive, showing informational scale economies. The results imply that the positive informational scale effect dominates the negative substitution effect when the efficiency of previous migrants is sufficiently high in the labor market.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/157929
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109641
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceYamauchi, Futoshi. 2003. Nonmarket networks among migrants: evidence from metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand. FCND Discussion Paper 169. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157929
dc.subjectlivelihoods
dc.subjectrural urban relations
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectlabour
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjecturban areas
dc.subjectremuneration
dc.titleNonmarket networks among migrants: evidence from metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand
dc.typeWorking Paper

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