📰 New publication “A Decade in Rural Tamil Nadu: Socio-economic, Labour, and Migration Trends from an Original Longitudinal Household Survey”

Mary Di Santolo, Isabelle Guérin, Sébastien Michiels, Cécile Mouchel, Arnaud Natal, Christophe J. Nordman, and G. Venkatasubramanian have published an article in Economic & Political Weekly, entitled “A Decade in Rural Tamil Nadu: Socio-economic, Labour, and Migration Trends from an Original Longitudinal Household Survey”.

Abstract: In a context marked by many structural changes and high inequalities, longitudinal studies appear to be particularly useful and revealing in analysing the extent of socio-economic dynamics. This paper aims to propose a broad picture of socio-economic dynamics, in particular labour and migration, in rural areas of Tamil Nadu for the last decade using an original first-hand longitudinal survey called NEEMSIS (Networks, Employment, dEbt, Mobilities, and Skills in India Survey). Although NEEMSIS cannot compete with large-scale national surveys, it reveals what they miss by exploring finer socio-economic processes, such as household financial practices, transformation of work, individual’s access and use of social networks and cognition, and social mobility trajectories.

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