Pattern and Determinants of Non-farm Employment in Peri-Urban Areas of Punjab

This paper makes an attempt to study the pattern and determinants of non-farm employment in peri-urban areas of Punjab on the basis of data collected from 153 rural households. Logit model was used to estimate the determinants of access to non-farm employment activities. While two-third male workers were engaged in the non-farm activities, the proportion of female workers employed in such activities was almost one-third of the total workforce. Though more than 70 per cent of semi-urban households had access to the non-farm sources of income, the proportion of income accruing from these sources was about 29 per cent. Gender, caste, age, level of education, household size and size of the landholding were found to be significant determinants of access to non-farm employment in semi-urban areas of Punjab.