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Land rental market and off-farm employment: rural households in Jiangxi Province, P.R. China
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Feng, Shuyi |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | In rural China , agricultural production factor markets, particularly land and labour, face many institutional obstacles and remain largely underdeveloped. Further growth in agricultural productivity and rural household incomes, and thus a reduction in rural-urban income inequality are likely to depend on increases in rural land and labour productivity, and therefore require the development of land and labour markets. Previous research regarding factor market development and agricultural production in rural China has often focused on either the land or the labour market. However, the recent increases of both land rental transactions and off-farm employment suggest that households may make simultaneous decisions on land and labour market participation. Analysing these phenomena therefore requires a simultaneous approach. This study provides a quantitative analysis of the factors determining the participation of farm households in rural land and off-farm labour markets, and the consequences of participation in these markets for allocative efficiency and agricultural productivity in Southeast China . It contributes to the previous literature by analysing the inter-relationship of household land and labour market participation, investigating the determinants of joint household land and labour market participation, examining the allocative efficiency and separability of household decision making for different land and labour market participation regimes, and exploring the implications of participation in land and labour markets for short-term land investment, input use and land productivity. A farm household model approach is applied, using data collected from 329 rural households in three villages of Northeast Jiangxi province. The empirical analysis indicates that participation in the land rental market improves allocative efficiency and land productivity, while off-farm employment improves allocative efficiency but not land productivity. These findings suggest that reforming the household registration system and land tenure system, building local institutions, and implementing pro-poor policy interventions are likely to facilitate land rental market development, stimulate off-farm employment, thereby increasing agricultural productivity and rural household incomes and reducing rural-urban income inequality. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/fulltext/26296 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
