The determinants of peasants' family income in China's west underdeveloped area: effects of working away from home village

Zongyi Zhang, Feng Wang, Dongmei Yu and Qi Liu

China Economic Journal, 2008, vol. 1, issue 2, 147-153

Abstract: There are more than one hundred million peasants working in non-agricultural industries away from their home villages in China. Using survey data of 2004 from Chongqing, the authors intend to research on the poverty of China's west economically backward area through investigating the peasants' family income and the out-of-rural workers' income, and have found out that working away from home village is the main source of peasants' income growth in China's economically backward area. Working away from home village gives peasants a chance to get directly engaged in the process of industrialization and urbanization, reducing the east–west inequality and rural–urban income disparity.

Date: 2008
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