Ten Years in Tamil Nadu: Exploring Labour, Migration and Debt from Longitudinal Household Surveys in South India

Mary Di Santolo (), Isabelle Guérin, Sébastien Michiels (), Cécile Mouchel, Arnaud Natal, Christophe Nordman and Govindan Venkatasubramanian ()
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Mary Di Santolo: UMR LEDa, DIAL, PSL, Université Paris Dauphine, IRD
Sébastien Michiels: IFP (Pondicherry, India)
Cécile Mouchel: CESSMA (IRD, INALCO, and Université Paris Cité), UMR LEDa, DIAL, PSL, Université Paris Dauphine, IRD
Govindan Venkatasubramanian: IFP (Pondicherry, India)

No DT/2024/02, Working Papers from DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation)

Abstract: Indian society has been experiencing significant changes since the nineties brought by a gradual set of reforms in favour of a market economy and the country’s integration into the global economy. However, despite outstanding economic growth for the last decades, India continues to be gripped by strong inequalities and the burden of social institutions such as caste, family or gender. Regarding the time pace of such changes, longitudinal studies appear to be particularly useful and revealing in analysing the extent of socio-economic dynamics. This paper aims to propose a new longitudinal data collection tool and a broad picture of socio-economic dynamics in rural areas of Tamil Nadu for the last decade. Data have been collected using the NEEMSIS survey. It is focused on more than 600 households from 10 villages in Tamil Nadu at three points in time; 2010, 2016-17 and 2020-21. The NEEMSIS survey encompass key topics including employment, indebtedness, agriculture, wealth, formation of skills, social networks, or social and spatial mobilities.

Keywords: Panel data; household survey; caste; Tamil Nadu; labour; debt; gender; migration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C83 D1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2024-03
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