Off-farm employment and poverty alleviation in rural China

被引:0
|
作者
LI Shao-ping [1 ]
DONG Yong-qing [2 ]
ZHANG Lin-xiu [3 ,4 ]
LIU Cheng-fang [1 ]
机构
[1] China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University
[2] College of Management and Economics/Center for Social Science Survey and Data, Tianjin University
[3] UN Environment Programme-International Ecosystem Management Partnership
[4] Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
基金
中国国家自然科学基金; 中国博士后科学基金;
关键词
D O I
暂无
中图分类号
F323.6 [农业劳动力与农业人口]; F249.2 [中国]; F323.8 [农业收入与分配];
学科分类号
020106 ; 0202 ; 020205 ; 020207 ; 1202 ; 120202 ; 1203 ;
摘要
Two phenomena in the history of China’s economic growth during the last four decades are the increase in the share of offfarm employment and the progress in poverty alleviation in rural China. Although both of them have been well documented in the literature, less is known about the linkage between the two. To better understand the role that off-farm employment has played in poverty alleviation in rural China is critically important not only for China but also for those countries that are trying to reduce poverty. Here, we examine the impact of off-farm employment on poverty alleviation in rural China. Using the data from two nationally representative household panel surveys(China National Rural Survey and China Rural Development Survey), this paper provides supporting evidence that off-farm employment contributes to poverty alleviation in rural China. Specifically, if household participation in off-farm employment increases by 10 percentage points, the likelihood for a nonpoor household to fall into poverty will decrease by 0.88 percentage point whereas the likelihood for a poor household to climb out of poverty will increase by 3.5 percentage points. In a word, off-employment can not only prevent rural residents to fall into poverty but also help those already in poverty climb out of it.
引用
收藏
页码:943 / 952
页数:10
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [41] Labor Off-Farm Employment and Farmers' Cooking Clean Energy Use: Evidence from Rural China
    Zhou, Wenfeng
    Qing, Chen
    Guo, Shili
    He, Jia
    Deng, Xin
    Song, Jiahao
    Xu, Dingde
    [J]. AGRICULTURE-BASEL, 2022, 12 (07):
  • [42] Off-farm income and food expenditure of rural households in China
    Liu, Yuying
    Renwick, Alan
    Fu, Xinhong
    [J]. BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL, 2019, 121 (05): : 1088 - 1100
  • [43] Impact of Childcare and Eldercare on Off-farm Activities in Rural China
    Qiao, Fangbin
    Rozelle, Scott
    Zhang, Linxiu
    Yao, Yi
    Zhang, Jian
    [J]. CHINA & WORLD ECONOMY, 2015, 23 (02) : 100 - 120
  • [44] The Effect of Land Reallocation on Off-Farm Employments in Rural China
    Che, Yi
    Fan, Zuojun
    Zhang, Yan
    [J]. FRONTIERS OF ECONOMICS IN CHINA, 2019, 14 (03) : 401 - 427
  • [45] Off-farm employment and household clean energy transition in rural China: A study based on a gender perspective
    Chang, Huayi
    Heerink, Nico
    Zhang, Junbiao
    He, Ke
    [J]. ENERGY, 2024, 287
  • [46] Household-level linkages between off-farm employment and agricultural fixed assets in rural China
    Su, Weiliang
    Liu, Chengfang
    Zhang, Linxiu
    Luo, Renfu
    Yi, Hongmei
    [J]. China Agricultural Economic Review, 2015, 7 (02) : 185 - 196
  • [47] Off-farm employment experience triggers heterogeneity of exiting part-time farming in rural China
    Bai, Yunli
    Wang, Weidong
    Zhang, Linxiu
    [J]. CHINA AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2022, 14 (03) : 567 - 582
  • [48] Farm income variability and off-farm employment in Ireland
    Loughrey, Jason
    Hennessy, Thia
    [J]. AGRICULTURAL FINANCE REVIEW, 2016, 76 (03) : 378 - 401
  • [49] Does unstable off-farm employment cause stagnant farmland rent-out in rural China?
    Cao, Yueming
    Zhou, Dongjie
    Bai, Yunli
    [J]. CHINA AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2024, 16 (03) : 545 - 567
  • [50] Does Off-Farm Wage Employment Make Women in Rural Senegal Happy?
    Van den Broeck, Goedele
    Maertens, Miet
    [J]. FEMINIST ECONOMICS, 2017, 23 (04) : 250 - 275