title: Information flow, expectations and job search:  rural-to-urban migration process in India.
abstract: "Probabilistic migration models assume that search for urban jobs is entirely an urban-based activity and that employment in free-entry activities is a transitional phase during which migrants are actively searching for formal sector employment.  This paper tests the empirical validity of these assumptions using data, collected by the author in a sample survey in Delhi [India] in 1975-76, on 1,400 migrants from rural areas."  Evidence is presented "that the migration process postulated in probabilistic models is not realistic in the case of Delhi.  Over one-half of the sample had moved to Delhi after lining up specific jobs; a sizeable proportion expected to enter on arrival activities generally considered to be characterized by freedom of entry; and the majority of entrants into free-activities did not search for alternative employment and were engaged in the same activities at the time of the survey."
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D007194:India; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009790:Occupations; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011336:Probability; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Economic Model; Employment Status; Human Resources; India; Information; Labor Force; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; Occupations; Population; Population Dynamics; Probability; Rural-urban Migration; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Asia