abstract: 'India''s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

  (MGNREGS) is the largest public-works based rural livelihood programme

  in the world. One of the important policy objectives of the Scheme is to

  curb rural out-migration by guaranteeing demand-driven employment

  opportunities for 100 days in a year in rural areas. This paper uses a

  large sample survey-based nationally representative data set and

  different probability models to investigate how MGNREGS influences

  individuals'' seasonal rural out-migration decisions. The results reveal

  that contrary to the policy objective, participation, the extent of

  participation and earnings from the Scheme increases an individual''s

  propensity to out-migrate. However, the Scheme serves broader and

  equally critical socio-economic goals of empowerment through income

  security and positive network effects. MGNREGS, on the one hand,

  significantly drives the decisions of aspirational migration of rural

  individuals, particularly females and the relatively advantaged. On the

  other, it curbs distress migration of the relatively disadvantaged by

  providing them with basic livelihood opportunities within the rural

  areas. Based on the findings, the paper draws several policy

  implications and discusses key policy imperatives towards expanding the

  scale and scope of the public-works Scheme. (c) 2021 The Society for

  Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Nandy, A (Corresponding Author), Indian Inst Management Ranchi, Audrey
  House Campus,Meurs Rd, Ranchi 834008, Jharkhand, India.

  Nandy, Amarendu, Indian Inst Management Ranchi, Audrey House Campus,Meurs Rd, Ranchi
  834008, Jharkhand, India.

  Tiwari, Chhavi, TA Pai Management Inst, Manipal, Karnataka, India.

  Kundu, Sayantan, Praxis Business Sch, Kolkata, W Bengal, India.'
author: Nandy, Amarendu and Tiwari, Chhavi and Kundu, Sayantan
author-email: 'amarendu@iimranchi.ac.in

  chhavi.tiwari@tapmi.edu.in

  sayantan.kundu@gmail.com'
author_list:
- family: Nandy
  given: Amarendu
- family: Tiwari
  given: Chhavi
- family: Kundu
  given: Sayantan
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2021.09.001
earlyaccessdate: DEC 2021
eissn: 1873-8060
files: []
issn: 0161-8938
journal: JOURNAL OF POLICY MODELING
keywords: 'Rural out-migration; Employment guarantee; MGNREGS; Government policy;

  India'
keywords-plus: LABOR MIGRATION; INEQUALITY; INSURANCE; RESPONSES; POVERTY; MGNREGA
language: English
month: NOV-DEC
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '52'
orcid-numbers: Tiwari, Chhavi/0000-0003-2694-6702
pages: 1181-1203
papis_id: 2f0cc1fe092a0014b89bea468ba8a9ad
ref: Nandy2021indiasrural
researcherid-numbers: 'Peter, Serin/ITR-8938-2023

  Tiwari, Chhavi/ABF-8514-2021'
times-cited: '1'
title: India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme - How does it influence seasonal
  rural out-migration decisions?
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000729476300003
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '3'
volume: '43'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2021'