Factors Influencing the Decision on Labor Mobility to Working Abroad: A Case Study of Students at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

Abstract

This study is quantitative research with the objectives to study demographic factors and environmental factors that influence the decision to move labor to work abroad of students at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. The independent variables include demographic factors include gender, faculty, occupation of the head of the family, average monthly income of the head of the family, and the number of siblings who are currently studying and environmental factors include push factors and pull factors, The dependent variable is the decision to move workers to work abroad. The sample group in this research was 371 fourth-year undergraduate students at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. The research instrument was an online questionnaire. For the data analysis, statistics used in descriptive data analysis were frequency, percentages, mean and standard deviations. The statistics used in inferential data analysis were the Two-Sample Independent t-test statistic, the Kruskal-Wallis Test statistic, and the Correlation Analysis statistic. The study’s results  found that factors that significantly affect the decision to move workers to work abroad include demographic factors consisting of faculties, environmental factors consisting of push factors and pull factors. Therefore, the findings can be interpreted that relevant agencies should give importance to factors that influence the decision to move workers to work abroad by cooperating from all sectors. Focusing on creating stability in political, social, and economic to attract investment that leads to employment and increases the quality of life. A high quality of life will be the main factor that attracts people to not move to work abroad, as well as to maintain the number of laborers that work domestically.