Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India

Nawazuddin Ahmed received his PhD from IIT Roorkee, India, and is currently Assistant Professor of Economics at the Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune, Symbiosis International (a Deemed University), Pune, India. His research focuses on development and labor, and he has published on the impact of family background, occupational shifts and mobility.Dinesh Kumar Nauriyal is Senior Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He has published widely, and his recent publication includes Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India (co-authored with Nalin S. Negi and Rahul K. Gairola, Routledge, 2020).

• 1. Introduction; 2. What is Already Known and Documented; 3. Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Socio-religious Communities; 4. What drives occupational mobility: An analysis of parental, household and locational characteristics; 5. Intergenerational Educational Mobility among Socio-religious Communities and Neighborhood Effects; 6. Survey Design and Profile of Surveyed Districts; 7. Primary Survey-Based Evidence on Muslim Occupational and Educational Mobility; 8. Current Evidence and Disagreements