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- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Company
- Copyright
- Copyright ©
- Subject
- Special Issue on Income Distribution & Inequality; Guest Editor: Yuko Arayama, Nagoya University
- ISSN
- 0217-5908
- eISSN
- 1793-6837
- DOI
- 10.1142/S0217590814500039
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
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).
Journal
The Singapore Economic Review – World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: Mar 1, 2014
Keywords: Migration inequality development rural–urban labor mobility JEL Classifications: J61 JEL Classifications: O15 JEL Classifications: O53