The informal labour market in India: transitory or permanent employment for migrants?

Autor/inn/en	Shonchoy, Abu S.; Junankar, Pramod N.
Titel	The informal labour market in India: transitory or permanent employment for migrants? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der informelle Arbeitsmarkt in Indien : Übergangs- oder Dauerbeschäftigung für Einwanderer?
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2014), 37 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA / Discussion paper series. 7587
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Binnenwanderung; Landflucht; Sozialstruktur; Religion; Arbeitskräftestruktur; Schattenwirtschaft; Berufliche Mobilität; Informeller Sektor; Qualifikationsstruktur; Aufenthaltsdauer; Migrant; Indien
Abstract	"This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether internal migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their lifetime income and living conditions. We limit our study to the Indian urban (non-agricultural) sector and study the characteristics of the household heads that belong to the informal sector (self-employed and informal wage workers) and the formal sector. We find that household heads that are less educated, come from poorer households, and/or are in lower social groups (castes and religions) are more likely to be in the informal sector. In addition, our results show strong evidence that the longer a rural migrant household head has been working in the urban areas, ceteris paribus, the more likely that individual has moved out of the informal wage sector. These results support the hypothesis that, for internal migrants, the informal wage labour market is a stepping stone to a secured life in the formal sector. 017; J15; J61; J42." The study refers to the period 2005-2005 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4