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The Evolution Of China'S Rural Labor Markets During The Reforms

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de Brauw, Alan
Huang, Jikun
Rozelle, Scott
Zhang, Linxiu
Zhang, Yigang

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This paper contributes to the assessment of China'’s rural labor markets, while paying attention to whether these markets are developing in a manner conducive to the nation’s modernization. According to our household survey, we find that the rapid increase in off-farm employment has continued and accelerated during the late 1990s. Our analysis shows that migration has become the most prevalent off-farm activity; has become dominated by young and better educated workers; expanded most rapidly in areas that are relatively well-off; and begun to draw workers from portions of the population, such as women, that earlier had been excluded from participation.

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Paper provided by University of California, Davis, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics in its series Working Papers with number 11984.

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