Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Kishor C. Samal ¹, Shibalal Meher ¹

Affiliations
1 Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies, Orissa, Bhubaneswar 751 013, IN

Abstract

The present study makes an attempt to find the linkage between rural-to-urban migration and urban informal sector in five class-I towns of Orissa. Using the mixed sampling method, the study finds that rural-to-urban migrants constitute the major share of the urban informal sector workers. Unlike Todaro hypotheses, the study finds that push factors rather than pull factors and higher current money income against expected lifetime income play greater role in migration decision. Furthermore, the contention that only the poorest of the poor in rural areas migrate to urban informal sector is not found to be true.

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Shibalal Meher

Abstract

Studies on tax revenue identify state income as the major determinant of sales tax revenue. However, state income is a proxy to the tax base and is purely exogenous from the point of view of tax revenue changes. This leaves with the alternative to identify endogenous variable that could be used as suitable policy instrument to affect changes in tax yield. The study finds tax rate as the suitable alternative to state income that affects sales tax revenue collection as and when desired by the policy makers.

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