Income Mobility among Social Groups in Indian Rural Households Findings from the Indian Human Development Survey

Thiagu Ranganathan, Amarnath Tripathi and Ghanshyam Pandey ()
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Ghanshyam Pandey: Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

No 368, IEG Working Papers from Institute of Economic Growth

Abstract: The paper analyses income mobility across different social groups in India using data from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) collected in 2004–05 and 2011–12. Indices signifying different notions of mobility are calculated. The paper finds that average mobility across quintiles is higher among backward castes. Persistence is higher in lower quintiles for backward castes and in higher quintiles for forward castes.We also find higher inter-temporal mobility among households belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Other Backward Castes (OBC) while the positional movement is similar across different social groups. The per capita absolute income changes were highest for forward castes and the per capita directional income changes were highest for SC households. Mobility had the lowest equalising effect among households belonging to SC households and the highest equalising effect on forwardcaste households.

Keywords: Income mobility; social groups; India; castes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2016
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Published as Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, 2016, pages 1-27

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