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In recent years, the unreasonable use of cultivated land in China has caused a series of serious problems. Therefore, the state has put forward an important measure of "Exploring Pilot Program of Farmland Rotation and Fallow System ". Labor force is one of the main factors of agricultural production. Therefore, it is of strategic significance to further promote the national rotation fallow policy, modernization and urbanization to sum up the situation of farmer's rotation fallow land and labor force transfer and grasp the effect of fallow area on labor force transfer. Based on this, this paper uses the relevant survey data of 1542 households in six counties of Hebei, Gansu and Yunnan provinces to analyze the situation of farmer's rotation fallow land and labor transfer, and uses Tobit regression model to quantitatively analyze the impact of fallow area on labor transfer. The results show that: (1) There is a difference between the ratio of fallow households and fallow area per household in the study area, and the order of which is both Gansu > Yunnan > Hebei; (2) 62.97% of the households in the study area have the phenomenon of labor transfer, and the number of labor transfer of fallow households far exceeds that of non-fallow households; (3) The core variable, fallow area, has a significant positive impact on labor transfer; the control variable, the total household population, gender of householder, labor education level, medical expenditure, the distance from residence to highway and average wage per labor force have a significant positive impact on labor transfer, while the dependency ratio has a significant negative impact on labor transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Households are kernel of stakeholders in rural land consolidation. It is exceedingly meaningful to estimate the actual disposition effect of rural land consolidation on households’ livelihood strategies. In this paper, the types of households’livelihood strategies are classified, and thereafter, on the basis of the livelihood capital measurement, PSM- DID method is employed to exclude other confounding factors and econometrically analyze the influence of rural land consolidation on the livelihood strategy of households. The robustness of the estimation results is tested by various matching methods and counterfactual method. The results show that: 1) Rural land consolidation can indeed significantly change the livelihood strategy of two- type- job households. But it does not significantly change the livelihood strategies of professional agriculture households or multi- type- job households. 2) Rural land consolidation has a significant impact on the livelihood strategies of traditional agriculture- dependent households, modern agriculture-dependent households and non-agriculture households. Both the proportions of traditional agriculture- dependent households and modern agriculture- dependent households have increased significantly, while the proportion of non-agriculture households has significantly reduced, which demonstrates that households can adjust their livelihood strategies to adapt to the changes after rural land consolidation. Or in other words, rural land consolidation promotes the diversification of households’livelihoods. 3) A variety of matching methods and counterfactual method are adopted to carry out robustness tests which confirm that the main estimation results of this paper are considerably robust. Finally, suggestions are proposed based on this study. Incentive policies for different kinds of households should be developed. Specifically, two- type- job households should be encouraged to develop appropriate scale management of agriculture, and professional agriculture households should be assisted with training on modern agricultural technology or non- agricultural employment skills. Relying on local agricultural industry policies and rural land consolidation, modern agriculture- dependent households could develop regional unique agricultural industry, for example, leisure agriculture. Moreover, traditional agriculture-dependent households and non-agriculture households should be guided to realize the transfer of local surplus rural labor force and the transformation of livelihood to obtain diversified employment channels and income sources of households. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Construct our country harmonious society and industrialization must face the fact that Rural labor transfer. The research take farm household characteristics such as average age, human capital accumulation, average per person cultivated land area, social net, Special experience as explanation variables. Using the Logistic model and the Tobit regression to analysis the behavior of rural household labour force transformation based on 329 peasant households' datas of ChangShu City , RuDong County and TongShan County were servered. The result indicated that off-farm employment experience and anticipated average per person off-farm income are the most remarkable affecting factors for farm household labor force mobility decision, especially in the region that the lower ration of off-farm employment. Social net, off-farm employment experience and anticipated average per person off-farm income are the most remarkable affecting factors for labor force mobility scale, But the human capital accumulation and the average villagers' income also have influence to estimated result in different degrees. And the resource endowment that has both positive effect and negative effect on household labor force mobility, plays an important role in reducing negative effect of household labor resource endowment and enhancing resource endowment quantity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]