Occupational Choices, Networks and Transfers : An Exegesis Based on Micro Data From Delhi
Slums
By- Arup Mitra
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—monestary 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. This helps derivea 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. Interspatial
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 seems in the broad context of
intra-household inequality are dealt with. Finally, it reviews the past and
ongoing programmes relating to urban poverty, and compares them with the policy
directives following from the present study.
Arup Mitra
is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His area
of research encompasses labour and welfare, urban development, industrial
growth and productivity, infrastructure
development, and gender studies.
ISBN
81-7304-483-X 2003
168p. Rs.340/Pounds 35
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