This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly … of them were re-hired in off-farm work by April 2009. By August 2009, less than 2 percent of the rural labor force was …

demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine … educated farmers tend to specialize in farming. The demand for machine services has also increased if agricultural wage and … agriculture with mechanization and active land rental markets …