Boosting rural labor off-farm employment through urban expansion in China

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Sheng, Yu

作者： Sheng, Yu;Huang, Jikun;Zhao, Yuhan;Zhang, Qian;Dong, Wanlu;Huang, Jikun

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关键词： Rural development and structural; transformation; urban gravity index; rural off-farm employment

期刊名称：WORLD DEVELOPMENT （ 影响因子：6.9； 五年影响因子：7.3 ）

ISSN： 0305-750X

年卷期： 2022 年 151 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Rural development is widely believed to interact with the structural transformation, but little is known about how this happens in developing countries. This paper explores the impact of structural transformation on rural development through the length of analyzing the role of urban growth in creating off-farm employment for rural labor in China. By combining five waves of farm surveys for 1,234 households for the period of 2000-2018 with a newly constructed urban gravity index for 370 cities, we show that rapid urban growth in China has significantly contributed to rural development by increasing off-farm employment for rural labor by 47-71 million since 2000. Moreover, the positive impact started with the emergence of a few large metropolitan cities but ended with the growth of local, relatively small cities, suggesting the interaction between structural transformation and rural development is at a nationwide level. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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