Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census
Continued industrialization in China and increase in its agricultural productivity imply that surplus rural workers will to be attracted into non-agricultural production activities and, consequently, will have the opportunity to increase their off-farm income. Studying the structure of the rural lab...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Tuan, Francis Somwaru, Agapi Diao, Xinshen |
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| description | Continued industrialization in China and increase in its agricultural productivity imply that surplus rural workers will to be attracted into non-agricultural production activities and, consequently, will have the opportunity to increase their off-farm income. Studying the structure of the rural labor force and its characteristics is important for evaluating its migration potential into non-agricultural sectors. This study examines the rural labor market in China exclusively based on China's first national agricultural census. We analyzed the demographic characteristics of the rural labor force and their association with the type of employment, place of work, and labor migration. Furthermore, we investigated demographic distributions of rural labor force and attempted to capture their relation with the distribution of other resources especially land availability or land constraints. We finally applied a generalized polytomous logit technique to analyze the patterns of rural labor employment and forecast rural migration. In this framework, we related rural labor migration with demographic characteristics, types of occupation, place of work, geographic characteristics, and various economic development indicators. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1564332025-11-06T05:21:10Z Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census Tuan, Francis Somwaru, Agapi Diao, Xinshen migration industrialization economic situation demography equilibrium theory Continued industrialization in China and increase in its agricultural productivity imply that surplus rural workers will to be attracted into non-agricultural production activities and, consequently, will have the opportunity to increase their off-farm income. Studying the structure of the rural labor force and its characteristics is important for evaluating its migration potential into non-agricultural sectors. This study examines the rural labor market in China exclusively based on China's first national agricultural census. We analyzed the demographic characteristics of the rural labor force and their association with the type of employment, place of work, and labor migration. Furthermore, we investigated demographic distributions of rural labor force and attempted to capture their relation with the distribution of other resources especially land availability or land constraints. We finally applied a generalized polytomous logit technique to analyze the patterns of rural labor employment and forecast rural migration. In this framework, we related rural labor migration with demographic characteristics, types of occupation, place of work, geographic characteristics, and various economic development indicators. 2000 2024-10-24T12:44:09Z 2024-10-24T12:44:09Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156433 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Tuan, Francis; Somwaru, Agapi; Diao, Xinshen. 2000. Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census. TMD Discussion Paper 63. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156433 |
| spellingShingle | migration industrialization economic situation demography equilibrium theory Tuan, Francis Somwaru, Agapi Diao, Xinshen Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census |
| title | Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census |
| title_full | Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census |
| title_fullStr | Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census |
| title_short | Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns: a study based on China's agricultural census |
| title_sort | rural labor migration characteristics and employment patterns a study based on china s agricultural census |
| topic | migration industrialization economic situation demography equilibrium theory |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156433 |
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