..., the authors estimate the “labor contents” of agricultural trade flows and use these estimates to compute the farm employment effects. Findings The authors find that China's agricultural trade has indeed generally developed along its widely believed comparative advantages and disadvantages; however...

... are driven in the central and western regions by land and capital endowments, respectively. The findings also imply that the utilization of comparative advantage in China's agriculture needs to be exploited further. Originality/value As far as the author knows, this paper is the first to apply...