This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there was a substantial impact. By April … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly …

This contribution documents the effect of the global financial crisis on women's off-farm employment in China's rural … labor force. It begins by comparing the difference between the actual off-farm employment rate and the off-farm employment … rate under the assumption of “business as usual” (BAU – a counterfactual of what off-farm employment would have been in the …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there was a substantial impact. By April … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there was a substantial impact. By April … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … national representative dataset, we find that there was a large impact. By April 2009 off-farm employment reached 6.8% of the …