Surplus labour, social structure and rural to urban migration : evidence from Indian data

This paper examines the empirical implications of the Lewis Model with respect to the relationship between the phenomenon of surplus labour in rural areas and out-migration from these areas to urban areas. Given that scheduled castes and scheduled tribes households along with households with low levels of educational attainment are more likely to be poor, the findings suggest that the poorer households from surplus labour regions do not seem to migrate to the same extent as the richer ones. (DSE/GIGA)