...Linxiu Zhang; Yongqing Dong; Chengfang Liu; Yunli Bai Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the trend of off-farm employment in rural China over the past four decades since the reform and opening-up. Design/methodology/approach Using two sets of panel survey data, the China National...

... that China cultivates one developed farm labor market in its rural areas, and this issue should command sufficient attentions from the government. The authors of this paper intend to analyze the factors driving the development of the farm labor market in rural China. Employment Labour use and migration...

...] . Dr Zhong Zhao can be contacted at: mr.zhong.zhao@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 China Employment Labour use and migration Along with economic reform and social transition in China during the past 30 years, the Chinese labor market has undergone tremendous...

... in China. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 China Rural development Employment Labor use and migration Agricultural sustainable development The output value of farming per capita (y) is used as the proxy of agricultural output because it can be more precisely explained...

... – This paper assesses the impacts of return of rural migrant labor during the financial crisis on China's GDP and the growth rate of the national economy. Xiaoyun Liu can be contacted at: liuxy@cau.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 China Rural development Employment Labor use...

... pronounced among full‐time farm households (−7 percent) than among non‐farm households (−3 percent). Employment Labor use and migration Household analysis On the 14 September of 2008, the financial services firm, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy after being denied support by the Federal...

... with the endogeneity problem, and then compares the occupational choice between returnees and stayers with multinomial logit estimation and counterfactual analysis. Findings The authors mainly find that: the migration experience has a significant positive impact on wage‐employment activities, but may be has...

... Agricultural economic theory China Employment Labor use and migration Household analysis Agriculture The majority of poor people live in the rural areas of developing countries, and peasant populations occupy the margins of the modern world's economy (Ellis, 2000 ; Sanchez et al., 2005...

...H. Holly Wang; Veronica Wachong Castro; Nico Heerink; Xiaoping Shi; Wei Qu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain more insight into the relationship between off‐farm employment of rural households and water‐saving investments and irrigation water use in rural China. Design/methodology...