Assessing Off-farm Employment Decisions of Rural Households in China
2016
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Title
Assessing Off-farm Employment Decisions of Rural Households in China
Keywords
This paper investigates the off-farm employment decisions of farm households in China. A rigorous theoretical framework which incorporates agricultural risks is constructed and comparative statistics are derived and assessed. Associated empirical models are developed to quantify households’ decisions on supplying off-farm labor using a sample of household finance survey in 2010. Our empirical results show that farm income variability significantly impacts off-farm labor supply by farm households and individual farmers; which implies off-farm employment is a risk adaption behavior among Chinese farmers.
Author(s)
Chen, Xuan
Chen, Jing
Huang, Chien-Yu
Chen, Jing
Huang, Chien-Yu
Issue Date
2016-05
Publication Type
Conference Paper/ Presentation
DOI and Other Identifiers
10.22004/ag.econ.236262
Record Identifier
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/236262
PURL Identifier
http://purl.umn.edu/236262
Language
English
Total Pages
31
JEL Codes
off-farm employment
rural household
production risk
agricultural economics
rural household
production risk
agricultural economics