Yi Che a, Zuojun Fan b , Yan Zhang c
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a Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
b China-ASEAN Research Institute, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
c School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
E-mail: tccheyi2005@hotmail.com (Yi Che), 18878701208@139.com (Zuojun Fan) , zhangyan2007722@aliyun.com (Yan Zhang)
Could land reallocation partially explain the decision of off-farm employment of farmers in rural China? Using an individual-level survey data, we find that there is no effect of land reallocation on the individuals’ decision on off-farm employments. However, there is a robust negative effect of land reallocation on the amount of time that villagers devote to off-farm work. The first result is attributed to the large earnings difference between farm and nonfarm work; the second result is attributed to the fact that village leaders reallocate land from households short of farm labor to households that farm intensively.
land reallocation, off-farm work, two-stage framework, rural China, efficiency
Yi Che, Zuojun Fan, Yan Zhang. The Effect of Land Reallocation on Off-Farm Employments in Rural China. Front. Econ. China, 2019, 14(3): 401‒427 https://doi.org/10.3868/s060-008-019-0018-3
