Abstract
Family and friends who have previously migrated from one place to an other may provide persons in their former locality with an important source of information concerning their present location. This information may in turn increase the propensity of potential migrants to move that region rather than to some other region. This paper examines the importance of family and friends on the migration decisions of individuals in India.vv
Highlights
And friends who have previously migrated from one place to an other, say from region i to region j, may provide persons in their former locality with an important source of information concerning their present location
The potential migrant in region i may reason that should he m.ove to region j, the relatives and/or friends he has there will provide him with food and shelter until he can obtain a job
Recent studies by Beals, Levy, and Moses [1], Greenwood [6], [7], [9], Levy and Wadycki [10],and Sahota [14] have examined the determinants of in ternal labor mobility in less-developed countries. These studies have em ployed data that is at least roughly similar to that available in the United States Census of Population; 1960, and they are in somewhat the same vein as several earlier studies dealing with internal labor migra tion in the United States.^ What is unique about the present study is that it contains a "migrant stock" variable in an attempt to estimate the impact that cumulative past migration has had on the parameter estimates of current migration in India
Summary
And friends who have previously migrated from one place to an other, say from region i to region j, may provide persons in their former locality (region i) with an important source of information concerning their present location (region j). Recent studies by Beals, Levy, and Moses [1], Greenwood [6], [7], [9], Levy and Wadycki [10],and Sahota [14] have examined the determinants of in ternal labor mobility in less-developed countries These studies have em ployed data that is at least roughly similar to that available in the United States Census of Population; 1960, and they are in somewhat the same vein as several earlier studies dealing with internal labor migra tion in the United States.^ What is unique about the present study is that it contains a "migrant stock" variable in an attempt to estimate the impact that cumulative past migration has had on the parameter estimates of current migration in India. Migration data in the Census of India; 1961 [2] is given by re gion of birth and length of duration in region of destination, e.g., by duration less than one year, 1 to 5 years, 5 years and over.^ It is there fore possible to examine migration "flows" over relatively short periods of time, and to relate them to the migrant stock at some earlier time
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