TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of Migration on Household Production Choices
T2 - Evidence from China
AU - Wang, Chenggang
AU - Rada, Nicholas
AU - Qin, Lijian
AU - Pan, Suwen
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - The great migration from Chinese farms to cities during the past several decades ranks among the most economically consequential of modern population movements. We use a national sample of rice-producing Chinese households to examine the effects of that migration on agricultural production. Our assessment involves evaluating four alternative theories of labour market equilibrium in the framework of an expanded agricultural household model. Migration's farm production impacts appear to be slight, not on account of farm labour market perfections or remittance-financed technological improvements, but by substituting a reduction in leisure and other low-return activities for lost labour.
AB - The great migration from Chinese farms to cities during the past several decades ranks among the most economically consequential of modern population movements. We use a national sample of rice-producing Chinese households to examine the effects of that migration on agricultural production. Our assessment involves evaluating four alternative theories of labour market equilibrium in the framework of an expanded agricultural household model. Migration's farm production impacts appear to be slight, not on account of farm labour market perfections or remittance-financed technological improvements, but by substituting a reduction in leisure and other low-return activities for lost labour.
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U2 - 10.1080/00220388.2013.866221
DO - 10.1080/00220388.2013.866221
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84896091595
VL - 50
SP - 413
EP - 425
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
SN - 0022-0388
IS - 3
ER -