Short-term Migration and Consumption Expenditure of Households in Rural India

In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for rural India, this paper examines differences in consumption expenditure across households with and without a household member who is a short-migrant. [IGIDR WP-2014-009].

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Year of publication:	2014-03
Authors:	Chandrasekhar, S. ; Das, Mousumi ; Sharma, Ajay
Institutions:	eSocialSciences
Subject:	Short-term migration \| Household consumption \| Rural-urban linkages \| household \| rural India \| jobs \| manufacturing \| employment

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Institutional Papers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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