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	China's Labor Transition and the Future of China's Rural Wages and Employment
	Li Q.; Li Q.
	2013
关键词	China labor force participation rural wages productivity agriculture inequality education markets economy growth reform
英文摘要	This paper contributes to the assessment of China's rural labor markets. According to our data, the increase in off-farm employment that China experienced during the 1980s and 1990s continued during the 2000s. Our analysis shows that migration has become the most prevalent off-farm activity, although the destination of migrants is shifting from outside of one's province to destinations closer to home. The present paper finds that large shares of male and female individuals, especially those under 40 years, are working off the farm. These findings represent an important contribution to the labor economics field. First, the results of the present paper reveal that the labor transition from the agricultural sector to the non-agricultural sector for key segments of China's rural labor force is nearly complete. Second, although a large share of China's rural labor force work in agriculture, most of these workers are older men and women (and likely would not be willing to take low-wage, labor-intensive jobs). Third, the rising unskilled wage rate in China is partially a result of the tightening of the labor force in the young age cohorts. Finally, due to factors associated with the one child policy and other demographic transition forces, successive age cohorts will continue to fall in absolute number in the coming decade. Assuming China's growth continues, we expect to see further wage increases since it will take higher wages to coax more workers to work off the farm.
出处	China & World Economy
卷	21
期	3
页	4-24
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
ISSN号	1671-2234
内容类型	SCI/SSCI论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/30442]
专题	地理科学与资源研究所_历年回溯文献
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li Q.,Li Q.. China's Labor Transition and the Future of China's Rural Wages and Employment. 2013.

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