Agriculture-industry interrelations in India: issues of migration
The role is explored of rural-urban in the context of agriculture-industry interrelations in India. Section 1 defines the spatial contours of agriculture and industry in India; section 2 brings together the evidence from the 1981 census on the magnitude of the flow of migrants over the period 1971-81, at three levels of disaggregation: at the all-India level, for the major states, and for the largest cities with a population of one million or more; and section 3 discusses whether the variability in the rates of migration for employment are related to interstate variations in expected income differentials. Results indicate: (1) the migration flows are yet fairly small with the flow of rural migrants into urban areas for employment almost miniscule; (2) the expected-income differentials or its component arguments do not help explain the interstate variations in the migration rates so that the Harris-Todaro model does not appear to fit the Indian data; (3) a new variable is required measuring the level of continuum in the size of average population settlements in which the rural and urban populations are distributed, to bring the purely economic variables into play as determinants of rural-urban migration for employment; and (4) the critical and inhibitive role of the (absence of) rural-urban continuum would indicate that the linking of the rural and urban labour markets must be taking place, if at all, between segments within which this factor is less constraining. c CABI
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New Delhi (India)
1989
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| Summary: | The role is explored of rural-urban in the context of agriculture-industry interrelations in India. Section 1 defines the spatial contours of agriculture and industry in India; section 2 brings together the evidence from the 1981 census on the magnitude of the flow of migrants over the period 1971-81, at three levels of disaggregation: at the all-India level, for the major states, and for the largest cities with a population of one million or more; and section 3 discusses whether the variability in the rates of migration for employment are related to interstate variations in expected income differentials. Results indicate: (1) the migration flows are yet fairly small with the flow of rural migrants into urban areas for employment almost miniscule; (2) the expected-income differentials or its component arguments do not help explain the interstate variations in the migration rates so that the Harris-Todaro model does not appear to fit the Indian data; (3) a new variable is required measuring the level of continuum in the size of average population settlements in which the rural and urban populations are distributed, to bring the purely economic variables into play as determinants of rural-urban migration for employment; and (4) the critical and inhibitive role of the (absence of) rural-urban continuum would indicate that the linking of the rural and urban labour markets must be taking place, if at all, between segments within which this factor is less constraining. c CABI |
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