Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 亞洲研究所碩士班 === 100 === This article view an issue from labor market perspective to understanding the impact of financial crisis on labor out-migration in Thailand , used the number of workers export of the change﹑remittances changed and the policies of Thailand and its major labor- receiving countries.Preliminary analysis of the labor market found that the 1997 financial crisis originated in Thailand, labor market got very strong impact, and the global financial tsunami in 2008 caused by the Western countries the economic downturn. The impact of the Thailand labor market is relatively moderate. Twice the impact of financial crisis in Thailand has nature differences. When the Thai labor market had been relatively strong impact, the number of unemployed rose a lot, make the push force increase, resulting in the 1997 Asian financial crisis there is more out-migrant flow increases, the stock of overseas workers has also increased. In 2008 the global financial tsunami in Thailand due to changes in the labor market are relatively small, resulting in the number out-migrant flow drop and the number of overseas Thai workers also decline.
Those twice of the financial crisis had caused workers'' remittances decline. In Asian financial crisis, the government of Thailand actively promoting and sending Thai workers to overseas. In 2008, the global financial tsunami, there is no substantial domestic unemployment phenomenon; the government did not adopt the same measures. The labor- receiving countries most boycotted foreign labor policy in order to protect their workers'' employment opportunities. The short-term policy is to limit or reduce the demand for foreign workers and to strengthen enforcement action against illegal foreign workers, but labor- receiving country have structural demand is on these migrant, when the crisis is gone , the labor-receiving country will re-open foreign workers into their labor market.
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