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Chinese Agricultural Household. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 176
This dissertation deals with the off-farm labor
supply of Chinese agricultural households.
The first objective
explores the relationship between the farm operators'
off-farm labor supply and the household's farming
efficiency.
The theoretical model predicts an inverse
relationship between farming efficiency and off-farm
labor supply. However, the empirical results show
that the agricultural production technical efficiency
exhibits
no significant effect on off-farm labor supply. There
appears to be a surplus of labor in the agrarian
sector in China. Restrictions on the movement of
labor among regions and in the reallocation of
farmland serve to maintain this surplus and thus
bring about economic inefficiencies.
The second objective investigates the switching
nature of the operator's off-farm labor supply
depending on the spouse's participation status in
off-farm labor markets. The off-farm labor
supply behavior of operators with spouses working
off-farm exhibits some differences from that of the
operators with spouses' not working off-farm. The
results support that the agricultural household is a
more relevant decision unit for resource allocation
than is its individual members.
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