Income Inequalities among Marginal Non-Migrated and Migrated Tribal Households

Abstract

The present empirical study measures the inequalities of income among the marginal non-migrated and migrated tribal gaddi households of district Chamba and Kangra. For this purpose, the sample of two hundred marginal households were taken, hundred from Bharmour development block of district Chamba and hundred from Dharamshala and Rait Development block of district Kangra. The marginal households are those who have less than one hectare of land. The collection of data was done through schedule and personal interview method. The extent of income inequalities among non-migrated and migrated tribal gaddi households has measured by Gini-coefficient and presented through Lorenz curve. The inequalities of income between the marginal non-migrated and migrated tribal households were found low. The Gini-coefficient for the marginal non-migrated tribal households was 0.28. Where, the value of Gini-coefficient for marginal migrated tribal households was 0.25. Which shows that the inequalities of income in marginal non-migrated tribal households were slightly higher than the inequalities of income among the marginal migrated tribal households.