Sweta Lahiri

This article studies intergenerational occupational persistence using three recent rounds of a nationally representative sample survey from India. More than 60% of Indians are employed in the industry where their fathers are also employed. We find that individuals from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Hindus have higher occupational persistence than those from the General Class (GEN) and Muslims, respectively. Persistence in general is higher in rural areas. We find considerable interstate and intrastate variations in the incidence across General Category States (GCSs) and Special Category States (SCSs). It has remained almost unchanged among GCSs on average, whereas it has decreased gradually for SCSs. Large inter-regional disparity exists within states between rural and urban areas and between capital and non-capital districts. Such disparity is found to be higher among GCSs. Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand are the GCSs with large and increasing occupational persistence...

This paper investigates the impact of internal migration of the working age male member from a household on the probability of labour force participation of left behind youth. Using the 64th round unit level data on employment, unemployment and migration particulars of individuals, collected by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) of India, we find that almost 19% of the total youth in the sample belongs to the households with one male member internally migrated. The estimation results after controlling for possible sources of endogeneity bias suggest that short-term internal migration of at least one male member from the household considerably reduces the probability of early labour force participation among the youth in both rural and urban area. Long-term migration is associated with rise in the probability. However, such association is found to be significant only in rural area. This result indicates that the intermittent flow from short-term migration can enhance the ...