The Impact of Risk Aversion and Migrant Work Experience on Farmers’ Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

Wang, Tong; Liu, Jiaxuan; Zhu, Hongyu; Jiang, Yuansheng

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“…Recently, the effective execution of new urbanization and rural revitalization policies has led to the continual optimization of the urban and rural regional development pattern, which has greatly stimulated the dynamic growth of returning entrepreneurship [23]. Migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship refers to the act of rural laborers, who have previously worked in different locations, coming back to their registered households in villages and towns to pursue self-employment or non-agricultural jobs, which is an economic phenomenon with distinctive Chinese characteristics [24].…”

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Can Migrant Workers Returning Home for Entrepreneurship Increase Agricultural Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Shen,

Wang

2024

Agriculture

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One of the effective ways to crack the “Three Rural Issues” and promote rural revitalization is to improve agricultural labor productivity (ALP). However, at this stage, improving China’s ALP is still facing many obstacles and bottlenecks. Promoting migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship is an important breakthrough point for solving this problem. This paper regards the pilot policy of migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship as a quasi-natural experiment and empirically investigates the influence of migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship on ALP and explores its potential mechanism and heterogeneity using county area panel data from 2011–2019. It found the following: Firstly, the policy of migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship significantly increases ALP. Secondly, migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship indirectly leads to a rise in ALP through the promotion of agricultural mechanization production. Thirdly, the heterogeneity test demonstrates that migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship purposes have a significant influence in enhancing ALP in the eastern areas, plains areas and non-agricultural strong areas. The findings of this paper not only provide an important real-world basis for the government to further support migrant workers returning home for entrepreneurship but also provide useful policy insights for the modernization and development of agriculture and rural areas.

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Can Migrant Workers Returning Home for Entrepreneurship Increase Agricultural Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Shen,

Wang

2024

Agriculture

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Impacts of Farmer Differentiation and Environmental Cognition on Farmers’ Willingness to Withdraw from Rural Homesteads: Evidence from Two Pilot Areas in East Hubei, China

Yao,

Guo,

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Land

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As a key prerequisite for the promotion of withdrawal from rural homesteads (WRH), farmers’ willingness to withdraw has long attracted extensive attention. This study proposes an analytical framework for understanding rural households’ WRH intentions integrating farmer differentiation and environmental cognition (EC), and identifies the influencing factors, using surveyed data of 842 rural households collected in two pilot villages in Hubei Province. Binary logistic regression was applied to explore the impact of factors and the influencing mechanism. The results show that both farmer differentiation and EC have a significant impact on their willingness to withdraw from homesteads. Most factors are positively related to villagers’ preference for WRH, except the age of household head, share of agricultural income in annual household income, and satisfaction with existing rural infrastructure. The findings emphasize the combined roles of farmer differentiation and EC in shaping the willingness of WRH, providing a basis for other regions to benefit from the experiences in pilot areas and thus better implement the policy.

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Village Organization and Sustainable Growth of Farmers’ Income: An Empirical Study Based on Dynamic Survey Data of the Labor Force in China

Wang,

Zhang,

Gong

et al. 2024

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Common prosperity is the core goal of rural revitalization, and the sustainable growth of farmers’ income is an inevitable requirement. This study uses CLDS2014-2018 village- and family-level questionnaire data to reveal how the degree of village organization affects the sustainable growth of farmers’ income, thus providing a reference for local government decision-making to promote the increase in farmers’ income and narrow the income gap at the village level. The results show that the degree of village organization can significantly affect farmers’ income, and the analysis results of the degree of formal organization are consistent with this. Specifically, for every 1% increase in the degree of village organization, the per capita household income will increase by 0.324%, among which, the wage income will increase by 0.226%, the operational income will increase by 5%, the property income will increase by 0.008%, and the transfer income will increase by 0.042%. The estimation results obtained by using instrumental variables are consistent, and the results are robust. At the same time, improving the degree of village organization can also significantly increase the proportion of farmers’ non-agricultural income and narrow the income gap among farmers. On the impact of heterogeneity, it was found that the geographical distance between villages and county and township governments, as well as the political identity and education level of farmers, will affect the role of the degree of organization. The results of the mechanism analysis show that improving the degree of village organization is mainly achieved by promoting the circulation of agricultural land, socializing the service of agricultural machinery, and providing industrial and commercial capital to the countryside to increase farmers’ income. The research revealed that the modernization of rural governance should be accelerated and the degree of village organization should be improved, especially the degree of formal organization, so as to build benign trust and a cooperative relationship between village committees and villagers and implement policies and measures that improve the income of farmers according to local conditions. At the same time, this will strengthen the publicity and education of party members to improve the proportion of rural party members and the education level of farmers.

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The Impact of Risk Aversion and Migrant Work Experience on Farmers’ Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

Cited by 3 publications

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Can Migrant Workers Returning Home for Entrepreneurship Increase Agricultural Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Can Migrant Workers Returning Home for Entrepreneurship Increase Agricultural Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Impacts of Farmer Differentiation and Environmental Cognition on Farmers’ Willingness to Withdraw from Rural Homesteads: Evidence from Two Pilot Areas in East Hubei, China

Village Organization and Sustainable Growth of Farmers’ Income: An Empirical Study Based on Dynamic Survey Data of the Labor Force in China

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