%A Yi Che, Zuojun Fan, Yan Zhang %T The Effect of Land Reallocation on Off-Farm Employments in Rural China %0 Journal Article %D 2019 %J Front. Econ. China %J Frontiers of Economics in China %@ 1673-3444 %R 10.3868/s060-008-019-0018-3 %P 401-427 %V 14 %N 3 %U {https://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/10.3868/s060-008-019-0018-3 %8 2019-09-15 %X

Could land reallocation partially explain the decision of off-farm employment of farmers in rural China? Using an individual-level survey data, we find that there is no effect of land reallocation on the individuals’ decision on off-farm employments. However, there is a robust negative effect of land reallocation on the amount of time that villagers devote to off-farm work. The first result is attributed to the large earnings difference between farm and nonfarm work; the second result is attributed to the fact that village leaders reallocate land from households short of farm labor to households that farm intensively.