Off-farm employment, land renting and concentration of farmland in the process of urbanization

Weiliang Su (), Tor Eriksson and Linxiu Zhang

China Agricultural Economic Review, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 338-350

Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of off-farm employment on the concentration of farmland via households’ land rental activities in rural China. Design/methodology/approach - The paper uses Probit and Tobit models to estimate the effect of off-farm employment on land rental activities. Furthermore, the paper compares the degree of land concentration between pre-renting and post-renting in terms of Gini coefficients of farmland ownership at village level. Findings - The authors find that off-farm employment has a positive effect on the renting out farmland, and insignificant effect on renting in farmland. Moreover, off-farm employment intensifies the concentration of farmland from small farms toward big farms by renting activities. Originality/value - The authors believe that the results will contribute positively to the assessment of the effect of off-farm employment on land concentration in the context of the urbanization process in China.

Keywords: Concentration of farmland; Land rental activity; Off-employment; D13; O13; Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1108/CAER-10-2016-0169

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