The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment and earnings in rural China

Huang, Jikun; Zhi, Huayong; Huang, Ziwei; Rozelle, Scott; Giles, John

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-5439

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“…At the provincial level, the GFC seems to have reduced inequality, with income growth in export-oriented coastal areas slowing [31] and millions of workers moving back to their homes in interior provinces [32]. This demand shock in the middle of the second decade studied here may have reduced the rate of urban expansion in the rapidly growing coastal provinces and possibly shifted the location of expansion towards less urbanized areas in the interior.…”

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Economic Growth and Expansion of China’s Urban Land Area: Evidence from Administrative Data and Night Lights, 1993–2012

2014

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Abstract:The relationship between economic growth, expansion of urban land area and the broader issue of cultivated land conversion in China has been closely examined for the late 1980s and 1990s. Much less is known about recent urban expansion and if the effects of economic growth on this expansion have changed over time. This paper updates estimates of urban expansion for China and examines the relationship with city economic growth for 1993-2012. To see if patterns are robust to different types of evidence, administrative data on the area of 225 urban cores are compared to estimates of brightly lit areas from remotely sensed night lights. The trend annual expansion rate in lit area is 8% and was significantly faster in the decade to 2002 than in the most recent decade. Expansion is slower according to administrative data, at just 5% per annum, with no change in unconditional expansion rates between decades, while conditional expansion rates have declined. The elasticity of area with respect to city economic output is about 0.3. Over time, expansion of urban land area is becoming less responsive to the growth of the local non-agricultural population.

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Economic Growth and Expansion of China’s Urban Land Area: Evidence from Administrative Data and Night Lights, 1993–2012

2014

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“…In 2008, the impacts of the global financial crisis reached China's export-dependent economy. The economic shock halted production in factories across China, leading to high levels of unemployment in the rural migrant labour force (Johnson and Batson 2009;Huang et al 2011). As a result, it was less likely for farm households to migrate (-0.266) or to adopt the local income diversification (-0.233) strategy to expand their income in 2008.…”

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Rural income diversification patterns and their determinants in China

Zhao¹

2014

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e article investigates the major rural income diversifi cation patterns and their determinants in the context of China. Based on the data from a rural household survey, we fi rst categorize the rural income diversifi cation patterns according to the industry and the location in which the income is generated. Th en we apply a Bayesian multinomial probit model to examine the determinants of various types of the rural income diversifi cation. Th e major results demonstrate that a larger family size stimulates households to undertake various income diversifi cation patterns, but its eff ects are discounted by an unproductive population structure within the household. Another interesting discovery is that a rural household chooses its income diversifi cation pattern by referring to the surrounding neighbourhood; when most farm families depend on off -farm activities to boost their income, the individual household is more likely to follow the surrounding households by participating in the off -farm or mixed income activities or to migrate out to earn its income.

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“…The unskilled wage rate in China has been rising since the early 2000s and today virtually all young, able-bodied rural individuals are able to find jobs off the farm (Cai and Du, 2011;Huang et al, 2011). Indeed, recent China's statistics show that the monthly earnings of the typical unskilled worker (who had off-farm employment in both 2011 and 2012) was almost 2900 yuan per month during 2012 (CNBS, 2014).…”

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“…Attending high school can also be associated with high opportunity costs since the wages for unskilled labor, especially in middle-income countries, can be high (and rising) (Cai and Du, 2011;Huang et al, 2011).…”

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The impact of conditional cash transfers on the matriculation of junior high school students into rural China’s high schools

Song

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Journal of Development Effectiveness

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise of a CCT has no effect on increasing high school matriculation for the average disadvantaged student. We do find, however, that providing the CCT increases high school matriculation among the subset of disadvantaged students who overestimate the direct costs of attending high school.

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The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment and earnings in rural China

Cited by 22 publications

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Economic Growth and Expansion of China’s Urban Land Area: Evidence from Administrative Data and Night Lights, 1993–2012

Economic Growth and Expansion of China’s Urban Land Area: Evidence from Administrative Data and Night Lights, 1993–2012

Rural income diversification patterns and their determinants in China

The impact of conditional cash transfers on the matriculation of junior high school students into rural China’s high schools

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