Is a self-employment skilled employment? - a case study of self-employed with Bachelor’s Degree in Thailand

Abstract

In the paper, the research will be focused on self-employed occupations with a bachelor's degree in Thailand to look at the skills require for the self-employed to be hired. The researcher looks further into the Thai labor force survey conducted in 2016, the latest source. The survey shows in detail of self-employed occupations in Thailand with degrees with the total number of 2,284 people in 196 different occupations which counted only those who graduate from bachelor's and above. Hence, in this paper, the researcher looks upon three different sources of information: 2016 Thai labor force National Survey, the skill required for each occupation sourced from O*Net online, and the education required for each occupation sourced from O*Net online in the USA. The selected skills are selected from the important skill of each occupation only. This research focusses primarily on self-employment to encourage self-employment and the skill relevant to self-employment The information used combine to certify that the self-employed in Thailand is a skilled workforce. The finding of the paper would be the skills needed for self-employed to be hired. The finding may influence the self-employed hiring decision as if the self-employed would be hired if they have these skills.