This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.

This study assesses how the transfer of rural labor to non-farm sectors affects China's national economy and the role the agricultural sector plays with respect to rural-urban migration. Econometric models using official Chinese statistics are used to: evaluate the marginal productivities of...

The necessity for developing rural talent resource in North Bay Economic Zone of Guangxi Province was analyzed. And the problems in the development were introduced. Related countermeasures on promoting the development of rural talent resource were put forward.

Official statistics are used to expatiate the general state of female labor force employment and transfer in rural China. According to the “structure†problem of female labor force transfer, it is pointed out that the overall cultural quality of rural women is relatively low, a large...

This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.

Food processing has been widely recognized as a traditional, unskilled-labor intensive production. Yet rapid development in technology drives food processing into more sophisticated and technology-oriented industry. This paper utilizes a fixed effects model to test the hypothesis that the food...

This paper examines changes in agriculture and livelihood system in four Chinese villages, on the basis of two waves village-wide household surveys conducted over a decade interval. To identify the factors that are important in accounting for variation in household income change, an income...

This study provides a deeper theoretical understanding of the linkages between land fragmentation and off-farm labor supply and investigates this relationship empirically in a more direct and robust way than in the existing literature. Drawing upon a rural household panel dataset collected in...

This work is devoted to the analysis of the different labor market participation regimes of Chinese farm households. Using household data over the period 1986-2000 from the province Zhejiang, we apply a multinomial logit model to empirically examine household, farm, and regional characteristics...

New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory posits a complex relationship between migrants and household income generation. This paper uses NELM and original survey data to examine the impacts of migration on income sources in Northeast China. Migration is found to increase farm incomes but...