Intragenerational labor mobility in the Indian labor market

Neog Bhaskar Jyoti () and Sahoo Bimal Kishore
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Neog Bhaskar Jyoti: Economics Area, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226010, India
Sahoo Bimal Kishore: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 30

Abstract: The present study contributes to the limited literature on labor mobility in India using the India Human Development Survey panel data for the years 2004–2005 and 2011–2012. We use three different tools, viz., transition matrices, multinomial logistic regression, and wage regressions for this study. The results show significant mobility across sectors in the economy. Mobility patterns among workers are found to differ significantly along the lines of gender, caste, education, wealth, and family background, among others. There is a distress-driven movement of workers. Significant earnings differentials exist across paid work statuses. The paper concludes with some policy suggestions.

Keywords: mobility; self-employment; gender; distress-driven employment; transition matrices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C25 J31 J46 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/izajodm-2020-0006

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