Role of economic reforms on dismantling barriers to inter-state migration in India

Sunetra Ghatak and Debajit Jha
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Sunetra Ghatak: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. India.
Debajit Jha: O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Migration Letters, 2021, vol. 18, issue 3, 297-304

Abstract: Traditionally inter-state migration in India was limited compared to within state migration. Economic reforms in the early 1990s have boosted inter-state migration in the country. Hence, it is important to understand the impact of economic reforms on the determinants of inter-state migration. Recent studies have identified that state border; linguistic divide and per capita income play an important role in determining the location of inter-state migration in India. In this paper, we tried to understand the impact of economic reforms on the choice of the location of inter-state migration in the country by using a gravity model framework. We found that while the impact of per capita income difference has increased in the post-reform period, the impact of the common-border has declined. Moreover, the impact of the linguistic divide has initially increased after reforms.

Keywords: Migration; inter-state mobility; state border; economic reforms; economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.33182/ml.v18i3.1116

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