Impact of migrant workers in the Kerala economy

Abstract

The rural labour market in India has undergone remarkable changes over the years. Changes in production structure occur changes in the employment pattern and workers move from agricultural to non-agricultural employment and from rural to urban areas. Deficiency of manual labourers is a major problem faced by the Kerala Economy. Farmers, contractors, businessmen, industrialists and other categories of employers find it difficult to carry on activities and complete their operations in time due to scarcity of manual workers. Emergence of migrant labourers in to the labour market of Kerala was a relief to the manual labour deficit market and they 'supply cheaper labour force in the labour market. Migrant workers engage in almost all activities as engaged by native workers. They perform various agricultural operations. Kerala economy faces the existing agriculture sector is mostly dependent on migrant labours the economy transferring our labour force from farm employment to non-farm employment. That shift would create a wide gap between the demand for and the supply of labour in the agriculture sector. Our existing agriculture sector was the sweat of migrant labours.