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Why Do Migrants Do Better Than Non-Migrants At Destination? Migration, Class And Inequality Dynamics In India

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  • VAMSI VAKULABHARANAM

    (School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, AP-500046, India)

  • SASWATA GUHA THAKURATA

    (School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, AP-500046, India)

Abstract

The puzzle that we address in this paper is why migrants at their destination fare better than non-migrants, across different socio-economic classes in India, while the general perception of migrants is that they are less endowed than the locally residing population. We explain this by the relatively high elite presence among migrants, dualism of Indian migration (between long-term and circular ones), but mainly by the differences in the levels of education. In India, migration has taken an overall color of increasing the nation-wide inequalities (mainly by heightening the rural–urban gap and urban disparities).

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  • Vamsi Vakulabharanam & Saswata Guha Thakurata, 2014. "Why Do Migrants Do Better Than Non-Migrants At Destination? Migration, Class And Inequality Dynamics In India," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 59(01), pages 1-13.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:59:y:2014:i:01:n:s0217590814500039
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217590814500039
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    1. Anh Thu Quang Pham & Pundarik Mukhopadhaya, 2018. "Measurement of Poverty in Multiple Dimensions: The Case of Vietnam," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 138(3), pages 953-990, August.
    2. M. Imran Khan, 2017. "Migrant workers in urban labour markets in India: wage differentials, assimilation and occupational attainment," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 60(3), pages 437-459, September.
    3. Mohd Imran Khan, 2021. "Consequences of Labour Migration on Wages and Employment: Evidence from India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 64(1), pages 23-47, March.

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    Keywords

    Migration; inequality; development; rural–urban; labor mobility; JEL Classifications: J61; JEL Classifications: O15; JEL Classifications: O53;
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    JEL classification:

    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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