Effects of Basic Social Services on the Personal Migration of Labor in Vietnam

On December 31st, 2022, the population of Vietnam was estimated at 99,329,145 people, an increase of 784,706 people compared to the population of 98,564,407 people the previous year. In 2022, the natural population growth rate will be positive because the birth rate will exceed the death rate by 879,634 people. Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance to specific groups, often including people from disadvantaged backgrounds. These services are provided by organizations and individuals, which may be private or public. Basic social service is a system of providing services to meet basic human needs and be recognized by society. The article uses the results of the 2020 Vietnam Population Living Standards Survey of the General Statistics Office with 26,790 observations of migrant workers in households to analyze the influence of basic social services on the migration of workers in Vietnam. Based on the estimation of the logit model with the dependent variable, there is or is not an influence of basic social services on labor migration. Model estimation results show that the influence of basic social services on labor migration is different between male and female workers and between married and unmarried people. Basic social services influence the impact of such benefits on migration decisions, especially for low-income households and female-headed households.