Migration and household investment in rural China

Brauw, Alan de; Rozelle, Scott

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2006.10.004

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“…5). This observation is in line with trends in other developing countries as revealed by de Brauw and Rozelle [29].…”

Section: How Are Remittances Spent?supporting

confidence: 77%

Remittances to Ghana: Benefits to the Housing Sector and Impact of Financial Crisis

Karley¹

2012

JCEA

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Abstract:The role of inflow of overseas remittances towards the development of housing sector in Ghana, and the impact of recent financial crisis on the development process is investigated. This is achieved through a review and analysis of information gathered through national and international statistical sources and targeted household and institutional interviews. As a prelude to the analysis the study assessed the importance of remittance as large and growing part of the economic underpinning of developing countries. It then assesses whether remittances have a particular relationship with housing. The research provided an estimate of the nature, level and uses of remittances and the different cyclical characters of other flows. It reveals that the successful real estate market development across Ghana during the past decade benefited from a buoyant national economy, improved financial systems and family remittances. However, the picture changed especially during 2008 attributed mainly to the global financial crisis and economic downturn. The reverberating problems of unemployment and high levels of bankruptcies in the advanced countries were felt but not as pronounced as they were in the major industrialised economies. The discussions concluded by posing a much broader question in relation to other developing countries about how remittances could be mobilised towards the development of the housing sector.

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“…5). This observation is in line with trends in other developing countries as revealed by de Brauw and Rozelle [29].…”

Section: How Are Remittances Spent?supporting

confidence: 77%

Remittances to Ghana: Benefits to the Housing Sector and Impact of Financial Crisis

Karley¹

2012

JCEA

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“…Some earlier studies report positive correlations between investments in agricultural machines and remittances from migrants (de Brauw & Rozelle, 2008;Ji, Yu, & Zhong, 2012;Taylor, Rozelle, & de Brauw, 2003). This suggests that, with the expansion of off farm employment opportunities that increase their incomes, smallholders whose household members work outside the village are more likely to substitute own agricultural machines for labor.…”

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Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture

Wang¹,

Yamauchi²,

Otsuka³

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Policy Research Working Papers

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Summary. -This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization of agricultural production. On the other hand, the empirical results show that an increase in non-agricultural wage rates leads to expansion of self-cultivated land size. A rise in the proportion of non-agricultural income or the migration rate also increases the size of self-cultivated land. Interestingly, however, relatively educated farm households decrease the size of self-cultivated land, which suggests that relatively less educated farmers tend to specialize in farming. The demand for machine services has also increased if agricultural wage and migration rate increased over time, especially among relatively large farms. The results on crop income also support complementarities between rented-in land and machine services (demanded), which implies that scale economies are arising in Chinese agriculture with mechanization and active land rental markets.

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“…In China, migration is related positively to the household labour endowments, but negatively to others, such as the land and the closeness to markets (Du et al 2005). Migration remittances need not only be invested in the rural households' consumption, including leisure, rather than contributing to productive investments (De Brauw and Rozelle 2008), but they also foster the household farm investments in the emigration regions (Rozelle et al 1999).…”

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Rural income diversification patterns and their determinants in China

Zhao¹

2014

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e article investigates the major rural income diversifi cation patterns and their determinants in the context of China. Based on the data from a rural household survey, we fi rst categorize the rural income diversifi cation patterns according to the industry and the location in which the income is generated. Th en we apply a Bayesian multinomial probit model to examine the determinants of various types of the rural income diversifi cation. Th e major results demonstrate that a larger family size stimulates households to undertake various income diversifi cation patterns, but its eff ects are discounted by an unproductive population structure within the household. Another interesting discovery is that a rural household chooses its income diversifi cation pattern by referring to the surrounding neighbourhood; when most farm families depend on off -farm activities to boost their income, the individual household is more likely to follow the surrounding households by participating in the off -farm or mixed income activities or to migrate out to earn its income.

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Migration and household investment in rural China

Cited by 179 publications

References 28 publications

Remittances to Ghana: Benefits to the Housing Sector and Impact of Financial Crisis

Remittances to Ghana: Benefits to the Housing Sector and Impact of Financial Crisis

Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture

Rural income diversification patterns and their determinants in China

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