Short Term Migrants in India: Characteristics, Wages and Work Transition
Published By: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research | Published Date: April , 2015With 53 percent of India's labour force still engaged in agriculture it is apparent that India has not witnessed a reduction in the share of population working in agriculture, primarily due to a dearth of adequate new jobs in other
sectors of the economy. With rural unemployment rates being sticky, the phenomenon of short term migration has become important in rural India. This paper uses a nationally representative data on migration to examine the characteristics of short term migrants.
Author(s): Tushar Agrawal, S Chandrasekar | Posted on: May 02, 2016 | Views()