Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282702 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16575
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find that rural households renting-in farmland increased labor productivity in the farm sector by about 55%, while labor productivity in the non-farm sector decreased by about 6%. We also find that rural households renting-out farmland had lower labor productivity in both the farm and non-farm sectors by 13% and 9%, respectively. More family labor transferred from the farm to the non-farm sector after renting-out land.
Subjects: 
land rental market
labor productivity
farm sector
non-farm sector
JEL: 
C31
J22
Q15
Q18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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