Off-farm Employment and Time Allocation in On-farm Work in Rural China from Gender Perspective

Tor Eriksson; Weiliang Su; Linxiu Zhang; Yunli Bai

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2016.08.006

Off-farm Employment and Time Allocation in On-farm Work in Rural China from Gender Perspective

Tor Eriksson
, Weiliang Su
, Linxiu Zhang
, Yunli Bai

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This paper sheds light on how the growing number of off-farm employees affects the labor allocation of female and male left-behind farmers in the Chinese agricultural sector. We find no direct effect of off-farm employment on left behind workers’ total working time in farming, nor do we observe a gender difference in this respect. However, we do find that increasing off-farm work is associated with fewer days worked on staple crops, and in the harvesting and sales stages of the production process. Hiring labor and buying agricultural services also impact left behind workers’ time allocation. Moreover, we find that in China, contrary to several other developing countries, there is no trend towards a feminization of agriculture, but rather a tendency in the reverse direction.

Original language	English
Journal	China Economic Review
Volume	41
Issue	December
Pages (from-to)	34-45
Number of pages	12
ISSN	1043-951X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2016.08.006
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016

Keywords

Gender difference
Left behind farmers
Off-farm employees
On-farm working days

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