Internal Borders and Migration in India
Internal mobility is a critical component of economic growth and development, as it enables the reallocation of labor to more productive opportunities across sectors and regions. Using detailed district-to-district migration data from the 2001 Cens...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/389841511186819498/Internal-borders-and-migration-in-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28904 |
| Summary: | Internal mobility is a critical
component of economic growth and development, as it enables
the reallocation of labor to more productive opportunities
across sectors and regions. Using detailed
district-to-district migration data from the 2001 Census of
India, the paper highlights the role of state borders as
significant impediments to internal mobility. The analysis
finds that average migration between neighboring districts
in the same state is at least 50 percent larger than
neighboring districts on different sides of a state border,
even after accounting for linguistic differences. Although
the impact of state borders differs by education, age, and
reason for migration, it is always large and significant.
The paper suggests that inter-state mobility is inhibited by
state-level entitlement schemes, ranging from access to
subsidized goods through the public distribution system to
the bias for states' own residents in access to
tertiary education and public sector employment. |
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