Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in Rural China: Gender, Off-farm Employment, and Wages

Huayong Zhi, Zhurong Huang, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Andrew D. Mason

Feminist Economics, 2013, vol. 19, issue 3, 238-266

Abstract: This contribution documents the effect of the global financial crisis on women's off-farm employment in China's rural labor force. It begins by comparing the difference between the actual off-farm employment rate and the off-farm employment rate under the assumption of "business as usual" (BAU -- a counterfactual of what off-farm employment would have been in the absence of the crisis). The study also examines how the impact of the financial crisis hit different segments of the rural off-farm labor market. Using a primary dataset, the study found that the global financial crisis affected women workers. By April 2009, there was a 5.3 percentage point difference between off-farm employment under BAU and actual off-farm employment for women, and the monthly wages of women declined. Most of this impact affected migrant wage earners; however, the impact did not fall disproportionately on women. The recovery of women's employment was as fast as that of men's employment.

Date: 2013
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