Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration

John Knight and Lina Song

Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: A nationally representative rural labour force survey of Chine is analysed to explore the allocation of labour among farming, local non-farming and temporary migration activites. The returns to non-farming greatly exceed those to farming, for reasons which are explored.

Keywords: CHINA; AGRICULTURE; RURAL INDUSTRY; MIGRATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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