Determinants of Non-farm Employment in Rural Bihar
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Author: Maryam Sabreen and Deepak Kumar Behera
Author Address: Research Scholar, and Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, Ashok Rajpath-800 005 (Bihar)
Keywords: Bihar, employment, non-farm sector, rural
JEL Codes: E24, P25, R11
Abstract
Bihar, one of India's fastest-growing states
with double-digit growth, recently saw a decrease in employment share,
resulting in attention being diverted to the rural non-farm sector to absorb
the increased labour force and facilitate the economy's structural transformation.
Hence, the current field survey was conducted to determine the factors
influencing non-farm sector participation in rural Bihar u non-farm
participation was mainly determined sing the Binary Logistic Model. The
findings suggested that by social group, size of operational landholding, and
source of income. Under social group, the shift of farm to non-farm sector in
Bihar had mostly been for the upper castes. In terms of operational land
holding, households owning some land showed less likely to enter non-farm work
than landless households. Lastly, Households with non-farm income as the only
source or a mix of both farm and non-farm were more likely to be engaged in the
non-farm sector.
Description
Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Volume 17 No. 4, 2021, 831-839
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35716/IJED/21157
NAAS Score: 5.15
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