A study on the Income, expenditure, saving and quality of life among the migrant workers, Trivandrum District, Kerala.

Abstract Migrant labourers are employed in unorganized sectors and mostly in informal setups. They are vulnerable and exploited received very poor attention in the labour policy of their native States. Their earnings are higher than the inflow from their native place, which is an important factor of improvement in savings, expense and quality of life. Often the migrant workers also missing the relationship with natives, native festivals, family functions, personal life, spouse or family relations. The majority of the respondents are from West Bengal. The skilled workers from West Bengal, Orissa, Assam and Jharkhand received 150 per cent of the increase in their wages and the unskilled labourers receiving 225 per cent of the increase in their wages. Most of the respondents are interested to keep money in their pocket. The respondents' opinions are on financial freedom as Rank 1, Equality as rank 2, food as rank 3, clothes are 4, health as rank 5, access to health facilities as rank 6, knowledge ranked as 7, hygiene ranked as 8, housing facility ranked as 9 and safety ranked as 10.