Prospects and Contexts of Demographic Transitions in Thailand

Prasartkul, Pramote; Thaweesit, Suchada; Chuanwan, Sutthida

doi:10.25133/jpssv27n1.001

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“…Declining fertility and increasing life expectancy have led to an overarching change in the population structure, and to major changes in leading causes of disease, delayed marriage, changes in frequency of cohabitation, postponement of parenthood, high divorce rates, and the size of the working age population (Prasartkul et al, 2019). For example, young skilled workers have been considered to be an essential component of regional plans for a rapid economic catch-up process over the last three decades.…”

Section: Demography and Spatial Demography In Se Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography

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In 2011 a specialist meeting on the "Future Directions in Spatial Demography" was held in Santa Barbara, California (Matthews, Goodchild, & Janelle, 2012). 1 This specialist meeting was the capstone to a multi-year National Institutes of Health training grant that had supported workshops in advanced spatial analysis methods increasing used by population scientists. 2 Early-career scholars who had participated in the training workshops and senior demographers and geographers drawn from across the United States participated in the specialist meeting. 3 The application process to attend the 2011 meeting, required that each of the forty-one attendees submit a statement that reviewed challenges and identified new directions for spatial demography, including gaps in current knowledge regarding innovations in geospatial data, spatial statistical methods, and the integration of data and models to enhance the science of spatial demography in population and health research. Reading again some of the

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Section: Demography and Spatial Demography In Se Asiamentioning

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography

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“…But also demographers and family planning experts are already warning of an "aging tsunami" and the transition from a period of "demographic bonus" to a phase of "demographic disruption" (cf. for example Prasartkul et al, 2019).…”

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Southeast Asian Transformations

Vogel¹,

Rothfuß²

2020

Global Studies

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Constructing and reconstructing life worlds of NusantaraPutting on our helmets and, if it is pouring with rain, tent-like gold and silver ponchos, we start our two-wheeler and drive to the end of our crisply paved alley to face the bungalow of our landlord and landlady across the street. They bought our townhouse to rent it out, and keep an eye on us, their tenants, on their regular walks to and from the mosque. Ibu Mar is a retired secretary, who used to work for the accounting department of a mining company. Her husband is still employed and has a fly-in-fly-out job as a technician at an open-cast lignite mine in Kalimantan. Two of their sons are already settled in Jakarta, while their youngest son still lives with them at home. Like women in the kampong, and my neighbour Nani, our industrious landlady Mar has her own business, which she is eager to expand, selling premium ice-cream of a Singaporean brand on the door step to passing school children (and exhausted working mums). Using my down payment of the whole year's rent for the house as is customary, busy construction work started at their house soon after we moved in. Walls are being torn down, doors moved, and the house remodelled to accommodate both the necessary car and the expanding ice-cream business (although while we were there we always went to the back door to get our cold lump of sweetened fat). During our stay, more of our rent money and their time were invested in marrying off the last son, and laying on a splendid reception attended by more than 1000 guests.Facing our landlord's house, we may either turn left or right. If we turn right, we pass bungalows and small residential estates. The street is lined with trees and full of animals: hens looking after their chicks, beautiful cocks showing off, cats moving stealthily about and occasionally a pure bred dog. Javanese ladies in informal batik dresses with their hair uncovered feed the animals. Alongside well-kept gardens and fenced verandas, some plots lie fallow, covered with dense undergrowth and wild banana trees. Jacob calls these semi-wild areas 'chicken forests' as these animals can be seen dashing in and out as we pass by, slowed down by the 'sleeping policemen' that cross the street. Chicken are an important part of the local diet and kept for consumption of their flesh, with chicken feet considered a special delicacy. Cocks are cherished as pets to be admired or as fighting cocks. The fowl run in and out between the well-kept town houses and the neighbouring chicken forest. These patches of semi-wild greenery help maintain a pocket-sized social-ecological system that is a remnant of home gardens in rural areas in times gone by. In addition to the poultry, young men like to keep racing pigeons or songbirds, which are fed and catered for with utmost attention and presented at shows and races at weekends. The young men can often be seen on motor scooters with the birds in cloth-covered birdcages worn like rucksacks, a sight that encapsulates the love

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“…With family planning as well as a lower fertility rate, Thailand is facing an imbalance ratio of working population and dependency groups (Narknisorn & Kusakabe, 2013). The country's birth rates are now below replacement, causing the labor force to shrink gradually, while population aging rates grow faster (Prasartkul, Thaweesit, & Chuanwan, 2019). These major demographic changes are putting Thailand into a demographic disruption period (Prasartkul et al, 2019).…”

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“…The country's birth rates are now below replacement, causing the labor force to shrink gradually, while population aging rates grow faster (Prasartkul, Thaweesit, & Chuanwan, 2019). These major demographic changes are putting Thailand into a demographic disruption period (Prasartkul et al, 2019). Extant researches have recommended that population aging has an effect on the configuration of the workforce, and labor force participation and the aging structure will result in a new way for the future labor force, particularly in the higher institution (Kühn, Milasi, & Yoon, 2018;Abeliansky, Algur, Bloom, & Prettner, 2020).…”

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Policy Adjustment as a Mediator between Older Workers Retention and Ageing Workforce. A Context for Action in Asia

Ugheoke

Banu

Mashi³

et al. 2020

Global Business Management Review (GBMR)

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Over the past decade, HR managers have been much concerned about the demographic changes and advised to take positive approaches to the management of organizations. These changes significantly cause population aging globally, resulting in economic and social challenges. This study aims to examine older workers’ retention, policy adjustment, and the aging workforce in Thailand. Purposive sampling was used to select a total of 520 respondents higher education institutions. We found that despite the call to retaining older workers, the majority of employers exhibit stereotypic attitudes, and finding it difficult to retain and attract older workers. Even though there have been initiatives toward discrimination legislation concerning older workers, however, policymakers should be proactive. Government should need to develop policies that would permit increased levels of older workers’ retention and create better competencies in achieving planned economic goals. Organizations need to adopt strategic approaches to age management and labor unions must show great commitment to the campaign against age discrimination.

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Prospects and Contexts of Demographic Transitions in Thailand

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography

Southeast Asian Transformations

Policy Adjustment as a Mediator between Older Workers Retention and Ageing Workforce. A Context for Action in Asia

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