Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture

dc.creatorWang, Xiaobing
dc.creatorYamauchi, Futoshi
dc.creatorOtsuka, Keijiro
dc.creatorHuang, Jikun
dc.date2015-01-07T21:12:16Z
dc.date2015-01-07T21:12:16Z
dc.date2014-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:33:24Z
dc.descriptionThis paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization of agricultural production. The empirical results show that an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion of self-cultivated land size. A rise in the proportion of nonagricultural income or the migration rate also increases the size of self-cultivated land. Interestingly, however, relatively educated farm households decrease the size of self-cultivated land, which suggests that relatively less educated farmers tend to specialize in farming. The demand for machine services has also increased if agricultural wage and migration rate increased over time, especially among relatively large farms. The results on crop income support the complementarity between rented-in land and machine services (demanded), which implies that scale economies are arising in Chinese agriculture with mechanization and active land rental markets.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/12/23032925/wage-growth-landholding-mechanization-chinese-agriculture
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/21134
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-7138
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/406028
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank Group, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 7138
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectAGRARIAN STRUCTURE
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL GROWTH
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL INCOMES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL LAND
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL POLICY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL REGIONS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL SECTORS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL WAGE
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL WAGES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectANNUAL GROWTH
dc.subjectAVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTH
dc.subjectCAPITAL-LABOR
dc.subjectCROP INCOME
dc.subjectCROP PRODUCTION
dc.subjectCROP YIELD
dc.subjectCROPS
dc.subjectCULTIVATED AREAS
dc.subjectCULTIVATED LAND
dc.subjectCULTIVATION
dc.subjectDAILY WAGE
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
dc.subjectECONOMICS
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subjectFAMILY LABOR
dc.subjectFAMILY MEMBERS
dc.subjectFARM AREA
dc.subjectFARM EFFICIENCY
dc.subjectFARM EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectFARM EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subjectFARM HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectFARM LABOR
dc.subjectFARM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectFARM SIZE
dc.subjectFARM TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectFARM WORK
dc.subjectFARM WORKERS
dc.subjectFARMERS
dc.subjectFARMING ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectFARMLAND
dc.subjectFARMS
dc.subjectFOOD INSECURITY
dc.subjectGROWTH RATE
dc.subjectGROWTH RATES
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOME GROWTH
dc.subjectINCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subjectINCOMES
dc.subjectINNOVATIONS
dc.subjectIRRIGATION
dc.subjectLABOR ALLOCATION
dc.subjectLABOR COSTS
dc.subjectLABOR DEMAND
dc.subjectLABOR FORCE
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectLABOR MARKETS
dc.subjectLABOR MIGRATION
dc.subjectLABOR SHORTAGE
dc.subjectLABOR SUPPLY
dc.subjectLABOR USE
dc.subjectLABORERS
dc.subjectLABOUR
dc.subjectLABOUR MARKETS
dc.subjectLAND CONSOLIDATION
dc.subjectLAND DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectLAND MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectLAND MARKETS
dc.subjectLAND OWNERSHIP
dc.subjectLAND REGISTRATION
dc.subjectLAND RENT
dc.subjectLAND RENTAL
dc.subjectLAND RIGHTS
dc.subjectLAND SALES
dc.subjectLAND SIZE
dc.subjectLAND USE
dc.subjectMAJORITY OF FARMERS
dc.subjectMARGINAL VALUE
dc.subjectPLOUGHING
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectPROPERTY RIGHTS
dc.subjectREAL WAGE
dc.subjectREAL WAGES
dc.subjectREGIONAL VARIATIONS
dc.subjectRELATIVE PRICES
dc.subjectRESOURCE ALLOCATION
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectRURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectRURAL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectRURAL LABOR
dc.subjectRURAL POPULATION
dc.subjectRURAL POVERTY
dc.subjectRURAL RESIDENTS
dc.subjectRURAL SECTORS
dc.subjectSCHOOLING
dc.subjectSMALL FARMERS
dc.subjectSMALL FARMS
dc.subjectSMALL-SCALE FARMING
dc.subjectSTRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
dc.subjectSUPPLIERS
dc.subjectTECHNICAL CHANGE
dc.subjectTECHNICAL EFFICIENCY
dc.subjectTECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
dc.subjectTECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
dc.subjectUNSKILLED LABOR
dc.subjectURBAN MIGRATION
dc.subjectURBANIZATION
dc.subjectVILLAGE LEADERS
dc.subjectVILLAGE LEVEL
dc.subjectWAGE GROWTH
dc.subjectWAGE INCREASES
dc.subjectWAGE RATES
dc.subjectWORKING DAYS
dc.titleWage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture

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