WHY DO HOUSEHOLD HEADS IN RURAL CHINA NOT WORK MORE IN THE MARKET?

Tadashi Sonoda ()
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Tadashi Sonoda: Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2014, vol. 59, issue 01, 1-18

Abstract: This study estimates a modified disequilibrium model to ascertain the relative importance of reasons why household heads in rural China do not work more in the market. Household heads in the Central and Western regions do not so because they have fewer young children, live with their grown-up children or must help their family members with economic crops or livestock production. Household heads in the Eastern region do not work extra because nearly 40% of them are constrained in the labor market. This constraint seems to come from traditional economic structure which demands more temporary workers than permanent ones.

Keywords: Modified disequilibrium model; household head; labor supply; Chinese farm households; work hours constraints; JEL Classification: Q12; JEL Classification: J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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