Occupational Choices, Networks, and Transfers

Occupational Choices, Networks, and Transfers

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Author: Arup Mitra
Publisher: Manohar
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 168
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817304483X

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This volume analyses occupation, earning, and standard of living of the low income households from slum clusters in Delhi, and lays emphasis on strategies and efforts initiated by the slum dwellers to cope with uncertainties they face. The role of informal institutions or networks in accessing information pertaining to the urban labour market, and in experiencing an upward mobility, constitutes an important dimension of the analysis. Transfer of resources-monetary and/or non-monetary-across individuals/households, which can be either based on altruistic behaviour or motivated by the principle of exchange (or strategic exchange) takes the central position in the analysis.

The helps derive the domain of public policy, which would not be in conflict with the existing institutions, and would emerge as supportive measures instead of appearing as direct interventions. Inter-spatial variations in economic activities performed in the city and their impact on the labour market in terms of physical segmentation, constitute the other major aspect that the study focuses on. Differences in occupational choices, incomes and consumption expenditure across sexes in the broad context of intra-household inequality are dealt with. Finally, it review the past and ongoing programmes relating to urban poverty, and compares them with the policy directive following from the present study.