1Assistant Professor (Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad), Department of Petroleum Engineering, E-mail-balikram.archana@gmail.com
2Assistant Professor, Centre for Economic Policy and Public Finance (CEPPF), Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Patna, Bihar, E-mail: barna.ceppf@adriindia.org; barnaganguli@yahoo.in
Online published on 4 January, 2017.
The general consensus of the studies in migration to urban areas in India is that it has stagnated and/or declined in the past three decades. However, it does not give any clear indication about the dynamics of employment related migration to the urban areas which is controlled mainly by the economic condition of the source as well as destination. Since the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, a lot of changes has occurred in both urban and rural labour markets which have some direct influence on the employment related urban-ward migration, its composition and labour market outcomes of the urban migrants. The present article analyses the trend of employment-oriented urban-ward migration in post liberalization period and establishes its link with the change in labour market situations. Using latest available macro level data, the study also discusses in detail the nature of employment of the urban migrants.
