| This dissertation investigates the causes of interprovincial migration in Thailand during 1975-80 for the country as a whole, migration within and between regions, out-migration from the Northeast, and in-migration into the Bangkok Metropolis and it sheds light on sex and age selectivity of migration.;The findings indicate that gravity variables, especially distance and the destination population are the crucial determinants of migration. Out-migration increases with an increase in the destination wage level, but also decreases with a rise in the destination unemployment level. Unexpectedly, migration is positively related with the origin wage level and negatively associated with the origin unemployment level. Education variables at the origin and the destination have a negative effect on migration. However, out-migration from the Northeast and in-migration into the Bangkok Metropolis are positively related with the education at the origin. While migrants seem to prefer urbanized provinces to less-urbanized provinces, the real effect of urbanization on migration is difficult to determine because the level of urbanization is highly correlated with wages.;Results disaggregated by sex show that males and females do not differ obviously from each other regarding their response to wage levels at the destination. However, males are more careful about the destination unemployment rate than females. They are also more sensitive to the origin unemployment rate than females for migration to the Bangkok Metropolis. Education plays a greater role on male migration than female migration for in-migrants to the Bangkok Metropolis. The level of urbanization at the destination provinces is more attractive to males than females.;Young migrants are more responsive to the destination wage than middle-aged migrants and older migrants. Middle-aged migrants are more cautious about employment opportunities at the destination province than the other migrants. Out-migration of young persons to the Bangkok Metropolis increases with rise in the origin unemployment rate. For in-migration into the Bangkok Metropolis, education has more influence on young migrants that on other migrants. Young migrants are also attracted by urbanized provinces more than the other migrants. |
