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Vietnam's 1993 Land Law was intended not only to increase the security of farmers’usage rights to their land, but also to facilitate land transfers. Despite potential benefits, the actual issuance of land-use rights certificates to farmers (as specified by the law) proceeded rather slowly in some regions. This article seeks to identify factors that explain the emergence of this form of property right as well as to measure its effect on agricultural production. The results suggest that the certificate's direct contribution may be rather small in the absence of the appropriate supporting conditions and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women are an important mainstay of agricultural production in China, though their access to land is characterized by even greater ambiguity than that of their male counterparts. As part of its path toward liberalization, China undertook agricultural land management policy reforms that were aimed at increasing the security of land tenure rights, but these reforms have paradoxically exacerbated the uncertainty surrounding women's claims to land. Utilizing sample survey data collected from 412 rural households in Shaanxi and Hunan provinces in 2002, this paper documents and analyzes gender differences in land allocations. The findings of this study shed light on the degree to which community characteristics coupled with current local practices (such as frequency of reallocation) influence gender disparities. Results suggest that a growing number of women experience loss of contract land coincident with marrying, and this trend may be expected to increase given the current direction of land policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on a study which examined the migration and return migration decisions of the rural folks in China. Background of the study; Details on the data; Analysis of the out-migration and return migration.

Provides information on a study that suggested that households in the rural Guangdong province, China, may contribute to the observed male-female market wage differential through their influence in the formation of individual's reservation wages. Women's work and the importance of households in rural China; How are wage rates determined; Methodology of the study; Policy implications and conclusions.