Impacts of Migration on Household Production Choices: Evidence from China

Wang, Chenggang; Rada, Nicholas E.; Qin, Lijie; Pan, Suwen

doi:10.1080/00220388.2013.866221

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“…Table 2 results show that when labor non-agricultural transfer increased by 1%, the agricultural land output rate fell by 7.264%. This is consistent with the findings of Damon (2010), Gartaula et al (2012), Rozelle et al (1999), and Wang et al (2014). Obviously, in the process of expanding the scale of rural labor Fig.…”

Section: Full Sample Regression Analysissupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Due to concerns about food security issues, the academic network has carried out broad research work on the impact of labor non-agricultural transfer on agricultural production efficiency. Some studies suggest that labor input in agricultural production is reduced (Damon 2010), and the importance of agriculture declines in the family economy of farmers (Wang et al 2014) and the aging of household surplus labor (Gartaula et al 2012); other factors will lead to a negative impact of labor non-agricultural transfer on agricultural production efficiency. Some studies have found that rural labor nonagricultural transfer is conducive to improving agricultural production efficiency.…”

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Screening of agricultural land productivity and returning farmland to forest area for sensitivity to rural labor outward migration in the ecologically fragile Loess Plateau region

Khan

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The mechanism of the non-agricultural transfer of rural labor to agricultural production efficiency and their interrelationships is a problem worthy of further discussion at this stage in China. The mediating effect model is constructed, the least square method is used for regression, and the instrumental variable method is used to solve the possible endogeneity problem. Through the investigation of farmers in Loess Plateau region, this paper analyzes the effects of factor substitution and planting structure adjustment after agricultural labors work outside and its impact on agricultural land output from the theoretical and empirical aspects, as well as the impact of off-farm employment on agricultural land output under different constraints. Results showed that the negative influence of labor non-agricultural transfer on farmland land output rate is − 7.264, and farmers' participation in returning farmland to forests can alleviate the negative impact of non-agricultural transfer on the agricultural land output. Labor substitution factor investment plays a part in the mediating effect, and part of the mediating effect is − 0.879. The adjustment of agricultural planting structure plays the whole mediating effect, that is to say, the larger the scale of labor non-agricultural transfer in Loess Plateau area, the more unfavorable for farmers to invest in labor substitution agricultural factors of production, and the more they are inclined to grow food crops. When the constraint conditions of factor substitution difficulty and planting structure adjustment space are considered, the higher the factor substitution difficulty is, the smaller the planting structure adjustment space; the negative effect of the non-agricultural transfer of labor on the agricultural land output rate is more obvious. It provides effective reference value to judge the development stage and trend of regional agriculture and puts forward relevant policy suggestions to guarantee the development of regional agriculture and farmers' life.

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Screening of agricultural land productivity and returning farmland to forest area for sensitivity to rural labor outward migration in the ecologically fragile Loess Plateau region

Khan

Xia

et al. 2020

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“… Mergo (2016) exploits data on participation in the US visa diversity lottery program by Ethiopian household members and finds that households with migrants increase food consumption and energy expenditures, while those with specifically male migrants also increase investment in water and sanitation improvements. Closest in focus to our study, Wang, Rada, Qin, and Pan (2014) test how households allocate labor inputs in response to out-migration, finding that households with migrants meet labor maintain levels of labor for rice production by shifting family labor from non-rice crops and off-farm activities.…”

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Migration, labor and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh

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Highlights We study changes in rural labor supply and their association with female empowerment. Labor scarce households see increased work by women only in traditionally female tasks. Reduced labor supply is not associated with a reduction in gender wage gaps. Households with female migrants have enhanced empowerment of other household women. Male migration is not linked to enhanced outcomes for women in the short run.

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“…Consistent with the theoretical framework in Section 5.2, the results suggest that migration negatively affects farm performance through the changes in production behaviour due to labour reduction. (Wang et al, 2014;Lewis, 1954). In the migration group, the median value and average value of the migrant ratio is close to 0.5.…”

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“…Migration entails reduced labour availability for agricultural production, while remittances sent by migrants provide households with liquidity and income security (Yang et al,138 2016; Wouterse and Taylor, 2008). Migration therefore affects farms' economic and environmental efficiency mainly through the decline in labour availability and the remittances from migrated household members (Wang et al, 2014;Gray, 2009;. This will affect their farm production decisions in case labour, credit and insurance markets do not function perfectly (Taylor et al, 2003;Zhao, 2002;Taylor and Martin, 2001).…”

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Land tenure security, migration and farm performance in rural China

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also diversifies the sources of income and could improve the income security of rural households. Migration decisions are to a large extent shaped by the institutional arrangements, such as villages' land tenure arrangements. Land tenure insecurity caused by local institutional arrangements could be a major obstacle for migration. When households face a high risk of losing part or all of their rural land, potential migrant members may prefer to stay home instead of migrating to urban areas for work.Another main livelihood strategy for rural households is on-farm production.Improved farm performance benefits not only the welfare of agricultural households, a nation's food security, but perhaps also the environmental quality when societies pursue sustainable agricultural growth. Both the economic and environmental performance of a farm are then of great importance when assessing farm performance. In contrast to developed economies, developing economies like that of China can face particular challenges in improving the performance of their farms. A notable challenge could be substantial labour force shifts from agriculture to off-farm sectors during the process of economic development. This process then makes it difficult for rural households to balance resource allocations between on-farm and off-farm activities. For example, a household with potential migrants should decide how much labour and money to invest in on-farm production and migration respectively.Given the importance of land tenure security, migration and farm performance, and their interrelationships, this thesis provides a joint analysis of land tenure security, migration and farm performance. Objectives and research questionsLand tenure security and migration play vital roles in rural development. Farm performance benefits not only a nation's food security, but also sustainable agricultural development. However, a full picture of the linkages is lacking. performance of farms, i.e. technical efficiency and fertilizer use efficiency. The former indicates the economic performance measured by the ability of farms to minimize input use given the output level (e.g. Kumbhakar and Lovell, 2003; Zhu and Oude Lansink, 2010) and the latter indicates the environmental performance of the farms measured by the ratio of the minimum feasible fertilizer use to the actually applied fertilizer use, given the level of output and other inputs (e.g. Reinhard et al., 1999;Skevas et al., 2018). Concepts and theoretical frameworkNatural capital Human capital Social capital Physical capital Household knowledge of policy estimate models of two continuous dependent variables, i.e., the number of migrants and migration duration. The generalized residuals obtained from the first stage model are introduced in the second stage equation. As the impact of land tenure security might depend on the development of the land rental market (Mullan et al., 2011), the interaction terms between the land rental market and land tenure security are introduced.interaction terms with the develop...

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Impacts of Migration on Household Production Choices: Evidence from China

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

Screening of agricultural land productivity and returning farmland to forest area for sensitivity to rural labor outward migration in the ecologically fragile Loess Plateau region

Screening of agricultural land productivity and returning farmland to forest area for sensitivity to rural labor outward migration in the ecologically fragile Loess Plateau region

Migration, labor and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh

Land tenure security, migration and farm performance in rural China

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