Given the shrinking proportion of agriculture output and the growing mobility of the labor force in China, how … agricultural labor productivity develops has become an increasingly attractive topic for researchers and policy makers. This study … aims to depict the development trajectory of agricultural labor productivity in China after its WTO entry. Based on a …

This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular … attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous … switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find that rural households renting-in farmland increased labor productivity …