| Title | Gender and Off-farm Employment: Evidence from Rural China |
| Authors | Wang, Xiaobing Han, Linghui Huang, Jikun Zhang, Linxiu Rozelle, Scott |
| Affiliation | Peking Univ, Sch Adv Agr Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China. Tsinghua Univ, Minist Finance, Res Inst Fiscal Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China. Tsinghua Univ, Natl Inst Fiscal Studies, Beijing, Peoples R China. Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Ctr Chinese Agr Policy, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China. Stanford Univ, Freeman Spogli Inst Int Studies, Stanford, CA 94305 USA. |
| Keywords | gender rural China self-employment wages SELF-EMPLOYMENT LABOR-MARKET MIGRATION RETURNS |
| Issue Date | 2016 |
| Publisher | CHINA & WORLD ECONOMY |
| Citation | CHINA & WORLD ECONOMY.2016,24(3,SI),18-36. |
| Abstract | The goal of the present paper is to examine how the expansion of the economy from 2000 has affected rural off-farm labor market participation. Specifically, we seek to determine whether off-farm labor increased after 2000, what forms of employment are driving trends in off-farm labor and whether gender differences can be observed in off-farm employment trends. Using a nationally representative dataset that consist of two waves of surveys conducted in 2000 and 2008 in six provinces, this paper finds that off-farm labor market participation continued to rise steadily in the early 2000s. However, there is a clear difference in the trends associated with occupational choice before and after 2000. In addition, we find that rural off-farm employment trends are different for men and women. Our analysis also shows that the rise of wage-earning employment corresponds with an increasing unskilled wage for both men and women. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/449747 |
| ISSN | 1671-2234 |
| DOI | 10.1111/cwe.12156 |
| Indexed | SSCI |
| Appears in Collections: | 现代农学院 |
