| ID | 156452 |
| Title Proper | Can land transfer through land cooperatives foster off-farm employment in China? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Hanischa, Markus ; Liu, Ziming |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Functioning land markets are necessary for an increase in off-farm employment. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the impact of land transfer on off-farm employment in rural China. This paper investigates the drivers of households' cooperative membership, which is equivalent to transferring land through land cooperatives, and its impact on off-farm employment. Using a two-step control function approach and data from Suzhou and Yangzhou (Jiangsu province), we do not find a general effect of cooperative membership on household heads' current off-farm employment, though the effect is large for households which had surplus agricultural labor before cooperative initiation. The effect is also positive and large for household heads without off-farm experience and households located in Yangzhou. Policy-makers should be aware of the distributional consequences of these heterogeneous effects. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Economic Review , No.45; Sep 2017: p.35-44 |
| Journal Source | China Economic Review 2017-09 |
| Key Words | Labor Market ; Jiangsu ; Land Market ; Land Cooperative ; Control Function |