Abstract
This paper is an attempt to identify the push and pull factors which influence workers' inter-state migration, on the basis of perception of workers. A sample of 200 workers drawn from 19 textile units located in two districts of Punjab was interviewed. This study found that better job opportunities, higher wages and comparatively better living conditions in Punjab have emerged as the most important pull factors which motivate labour to migrate. Lack of development, unviable land holdings and poor economic conditions of family forced labour to migrate out of its native place. The study further found that economic factors have emerged more significant as compared to non-economic factors in the process of migration. The study recommends that in view of the slow absorption rate in the urban industrial sector, the labour migration should be regulated. Concrete plans and their effective implementation are necessary in order to minimize the differences between the economic opportunities in urban and rural sectors.
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