Weather variation and temporary labor migration: a panel data analysis for select semi-arid villages in India

Pradhan, Kalandi Charan; Narayanan, K.

doi:10.1080/21632324.2019.1605745

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“…Therefore, climatic risks such as drought, cyclone and heavy rainfall leading to the crop failure, asset loss, and livestock has statistically significant and positive effects on the decision to migrate at least one member from the household. Some recent studies have supported this results (Badianai & Safir, 2008;Gioli et al, 2016;Hummel, 2016;Pradhan & Narayanan, 2019;Rajan & Bhagat, 2018;Rebhun & Goldstein, 2009).…”

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confidence: 65%

“…There are very few Indian studies that establish the relationship between climatic risks and the propensity to migrate (Anupama, Deb, & Bantilan, 2014;Dallmon & Millock, 2013;Kumar & Viswanathan, 2012;Morten, 2013;Pradhan & Narayanan, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their finding shows that in order to strengthen the income level, temporary migration is the only one option when exogenous shock affects the agricultural wage and labour demand in the agricultural farm. Furthermore, study by Pradhan and Narayanan (2019) shows the interlinkages between weather variability and internal labour migration by using ICRISAT household survey data for the selected semi-arid households in India for the year 2005-2014. And, they found that weather variability has a positive and significant impact on labour migration.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this light, some studies are conducted in developing countries' context to show the linkages between climate change and labour migration (Dillon, Mueller, & Salau, 2011;Lilleor & Broeck, 2011;Maharjan et al, 2020;Marchiori, Maystadt, & Schumacher, 2012;Pradhan & Narayanan, 2019;Rajan & Bhagat, 2018, among others).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While push factors; mainly low income, low literacy and dependency on agriculture; and pull factors like high wages, better living conditions have governed the discourse over temporary labour migration. It is only recently that the linkage with risk related factors has been established, in an effort to draw attention to an over neglected dimension (Dallmon & Millock, 2013;Jha, Gupta, Chattopadhyay, & Sreeraman, 2018;Kumar & Viswanathan, 2012;Morten, 2013;Pradhan & Narayanan, 2019;Rajan & Bhagat, 2018).…”

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Does climatic risk induce labour migration? Evidence from Semi‐Arid Tropics region of India

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Narayanan

2020

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The paper aims to focus on climatic risk as a potential determinant of temporary labour migration in Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT) village in India for the year 2013-2014. Specifically, we address the question of how households use temporary labour migration as a coping mechanism to minimise the risk posed by climate variables such as drought, floods, cyclone etc. In doing so, the paper uses a binary choice model (logistic regression) to examine the potential socioeconomic and demographic factors along with climatic risk that determine the probability of migration of workers in select Indian semi-arid villages. The paper uses data from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). The results show that among all climatic risk anomalies, maximum households in SAT villages are affected by drought risk. It is accounted that 69% of households are influenced by the drought risk. With respect to compensation of climatic risk, around 17% of non-migrant households received government support, while only 9% of migrant households received such assistance in this study. Also, the logistic regression models predict that the probability of household having any temporary migrants is significantly determined by climatic risk along with other demographic and socio-economic factors. To the best of the authors' knowledge, perhaps this is the first paper that makes a direct approach of linking climatic risk with temporary labour migration in semi-arid tropics region of India.

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