Census data from 1901-2001. It has been found that there is a strong association between industrialization and in-migration …The study presents a concurrent scenario of migration that is ongoing in India. Post independent India witnessed … better opportunities resulting in many problems such as unidentifiable population groups and slum formation. Migration from …

restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of … population. In particular, we test if migration inflows led to displacement, path dependence, or agglomeration in destination … migration shocks can foster urbanisation in the medium run …

A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable … predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family … migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of husband centered migration. Couples are more likely to migrate if …