 The impact of Chinese government promoted homestead transfer on labor migration and household's well-being: A study in three rural areasYongchao Zhang, Andre Torre and Marianne Ehrlich Journal of Asian Economics, 2023, vol. 86, issue C Abstract: The rural homestead transfers (RHT) promoted by the Chinese government in the recent years have resulted in major economic and landscape changes in the countryside and profound impacts on the households’ well-beings. Our paper aims to explain the complex relation between RHT, labor migration and households’ well-beings, based on a survey about three pilot rural areas (Changyuan, Yiwu and Wujin, in the Henan, Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces). The results found that the transfer has directly influenced the farmers’ income status, and indirectly through labors’ migration. RHT had a positive impact on their residential environment, and poorly improved their social security. It has improved the living standard of the households, positively influenced the farmers’ psychological state, and had very limited influence on their political participation and freedom. Keywords: Rural homestead transfer (RHT); Labors’ migration; Well-being; Yiwu; Wujin; Changyuan (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:asieco:v:86:y:2023:i:c:s1049007823000362 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101616 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Asian Economics is currently edited by C. Wiemer More articles in Journal of Asian Economics from Elsevier |
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