Urbanization and Spatial Patterns of Internal Migration in India

Chandrasekhar, S.; Sharma, Ajay

doi:10.1007/s40980-015-0006-0

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“…Facing underemployment, flexible labor markets, uncultured labor skills, and a dearth of public services and social security, the opportunity costs and risks faced by transferring laborers are enormous when they completely abandon agricultural production, and transfer to uncertain off-farm job markets. Thus, short-term, round-trip, or seasonal transfer (part-time rural households) of rural labor have become their best choice (Figure 8) [1,26].…”

Section: Multi-pattern Of Rural Labor Transfermentioning

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The Features of Rural Labor Transfer and Cultural Differences: Evidence from China’s Southwest Mountainous Areas

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Large-scale rural labor transfer is considered an important means of promoting urbanization and poverty alleviation; however, it has been difficult to fully reveal the complexity of mountain labor transfer using traditional theory. In this study, macrostatistics and microsurvey data were employed to conduct an empirical analysis of rural labor transfer in Xichang, highlighting the regional features of rural labor transfer in the southwest mountainous areas of China. The results show that the employment structure of rural labor is dominated by agriculture; however, its proportion is decreasing annually. The development of secondary and tertiary industries significantly contributes to the non-agricultural employment of rural laborers, who transfer mainly to the building, industry, and consumption fields—especially consumption, which has the greatest ability to absorb surplus rural labor. Migration of the population and farmers’ per capita net income promotes rural labor transfer, while the amount of rural labor, the urbanization rate in townships, agricultural development, and the topography have lagged effects on the process. This study argues that rural labor transfer in the mountains has regionality, multi-pattern, and gradient features; therefore, the promotion of rural labor transfer should consider local urbanization and poverty alleviation in such a manner that aligns with the local natural and socioeconomic conditions of the mountainous areas.

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“…There are almost 400 cities around the world that contain more than a million residents and about seventy % of these are in less developed countries. Chandrasekhar and Sharma (2015) suggested that there is a need to develop methods for estimating urban growth and migration simultaneously. D'Souza (1982) found that urbanization of scheduled caste in Punjab follows a set of patterns in the rural urban migration fewer people among the scheduled castes go to the cities than among the rest of the population and greater the occupational complexity of the city the lower is the representation of scheduled caste population.…”

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Urbanization and economic growth in Punjab (India): an empirical analysis

Tripathi

Mahey

2016

Urban Research & Practice

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In recent decades, urbanization in Punjab is occurring rapidly by reducing the share of agricultural activity and increasing rural to urban migration. In this perspective, the present paper using Census data describes the recent past trends and patterns of Punjab's urbanization from 1961 to 2011. It investigates the relevant determinants of urbanization in Punjab. Finally, it measures the impact of urbanization on urban economic growth in Punjab. The empirical results show that the growth rate of urban population is higher than that of the total population in Punjab. Urban agglomerations and urban areas of in Punjab also are increasing rapidly. Most importantly, it has been seen that urban population in Punjab is concentrated in an around Class I cities than other class of cities/towns. The OLS regression results show that road distance to sub division (or nearest city population of 1 lakh and more) has a negative effect on urbanization in Punjab measured by size of city population. On the other hand, city-wise total road length has a positive impact on urbanization in Punjab. In addition to that, city-wise total number of schools, colleges and electricity connections has a positive impact on urbanization in Punjab measured by city population density. The paper also finds the positive link between urbanization measured by size of district urban population and urban economic growth measured by district domestic product in Punjab. Finally, the paper suggests several policy options for planned urbanization in Punjab for not only to improve economic growth in Punjab but also in India as well.

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“…Natural population growth has played a much larger role in India's urbanization, thanks to its much higher fertility rate. 3 In contrast, migrant workers accounted for only 21 % of India's urban growth in recent decades but contributed nearly half of China's urban employment in 2007 (Chandrasekhar and Sharma 2015;Cai et al 2009). …”

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Institutions, Labor Mobility, and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India

Zheng

2015

St Comp Int Dev

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Why did China and India, despite their similar natural factor endowments and growth trajectories, attract different types of FDI? This article shows that microlevel institutions in China and India, particularly a set of regulations governing labor and land markets, shape their domestic labor mobility and consequently affect their FDI patterns and development paths. China's high labor mobility motivates foreign firms to concentrate in labor-intensive manufacturing and exploit the benefits of scale economies. India's low labor mobility motivates foreign firms to move away from unskilled-labor-intensive manufacturing and invest in the modern service sector where the demand for skilled labor is relatively high.

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Urbanization and Spatial Patterns of Internal Migration in India

Cited by 52 publications

References 12 publications

The Features of Rural Labor Transfer and Cultural Differences: Evidence from China’s Southwest Mountainous Areas

The Features of Rural Labor Transfer and Cultural Differences: Evidence from China’s Southwest Mountainous Areas

Urbanization and economic growth in Punjab (India): an empirical analysis

Institutions, Labor Mobility, and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India

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