An Economic Analysis of Labor Migration in Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu

The study focuses of on the paper in migration wage rates, working conditions in expenditure patterns. It reveals that migration from the study village is essentially seasonal and cyclical in nature and differs for the rural and the urban emigrants. It may be seen cultivators small and marginal labor, agriculture labor, land less labor all have limited purchasing power due to seasonal jobs they hold frequent occurrence of natural calamities working in unorganized sector further reduce their purchasing power. The helpless unemployed workers leave their village home and join already over populated areas viz., town and cities. It also finds that migration takes place mainly for survival and repayment of debts, and that a large proportion of their earnings from migration are utilized for day to day expenses.