The Model of Entrepreneurship Development: Labour Mobility as an Effective Instrument

Abstract

The present study is an effort to focus on the causes of spatial labour mobility in the informal sector industries and services. In this sense, the study objects to detect the factors that determine labour mobility processes and their influences on the processes. Further, the study also attempts to execute how people in the informal sector occupations try to utilize these spatial migration processes to realize entrepreneurship – this they do through vertical labour mobility processes.

To reveal this, the study is confined to a few informal sector occupations, namely the Gems and Jewellery industry, the Zari and Embroidery industry, the Handloom industry, and the Clay pot making industry in specific sites in West Bengal, mainly in Kolkata, North 24 Paraganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Nadia district. The sites have been selected on the basis of their importance to the map of the industries. To reveal this, the logical argumentation is based upon literature support, case studies conducted, and the sample survey results. The micro-level field studies, sampling design and data analysis are based on the standard model approach in order to avoid spatial homogeneity.