How land fragmentation affects off-farm labor supply in China: Evidence from household panel data
| dc.creator | Jia, Lili | |
| dc.creator | Petrick, Martin | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:52:42Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T06:12:23Z | |
| dc.description | This study provides a deeper theoretical understanding of the linkages between land fragmentation and off-farm labor supply and investigates this relationship empirically in a more direct and robust way than in the existing literature. Drawing upon a rural household panel dataset collected in Zhejiang, Hubei and Yunnan provinces from 1995-2002, we estimate the effects in two steps. First, we estimate the effect of land fragmentation on labor productivity. Second, we estimate the effect of land fragmentation on off-farm labor supply. The production function results show that land fragmentation indeed leads to lower agricultural labor productivity, implying land consolidation will make on-farm work more attractive and thus decrease off-farm labor supply. However, the effect of land consolidation on off-farm labor supply cannot be observed in the presence of imperfect labor market and this conclusion is supported by a direct estimation of the effect of land fragmentation on off-farm labor supply. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.126263 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126263/files/Jia%20Petrick%20-manuscript_260612_.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126263 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/573668 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126263 | |
| dc.title | How land fragmentation affects off-farm labor supply in China: Evidence from household panel data | |
| dc.type | Text |