Factors Affecting Migration Decision and Choice of Destinations in India: Evidence from National Sample Survey
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Author: Somnath Choudhury and Sujoy Kumar Majumdar
Author Address: Research Scholar, and Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Raiganj University Uttar Dinajpur-733134 (West Bengal)
Keywords: Choice of destinations, economic class, internal migration, labour.
JEL Codes: J15, J61, P25, R23.
Abstract
The present study attempted to bring out the
factors that determine the migration decision of the individuals and the choice
of destinations for internal labour migration. Standard ultivariate ogistic
egression odels were used. The M L R M study found that factors such as
residence of origin, household size, religion, age, education, economic class
and land possessed by the household were the important predictors of the
migration decision. Further, the statistical association of different
explanatory variables with the choice of destinations revealed that the
voluntary migrants had preferred to migrate to long-distance destinations to
get higher incomes and better occupations.
Description
Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Volume 18 No. 3, 2022, 533-544
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35716/IJED/21273
NAAS Score: 5.15 (2022)
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics (ESCI) of WoS
Indexed in Scopus (SJR: 0.18)
UGC Approved (UGC-Care List Group II)