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Effect of Farm Household's Resources Endowment on Labour Force Mobility: A Case Study of Changshu City, Rudong County, Tongshan County.

Authors :
HU Chu-zhi
HUANG Xian-jin
FANG Peng
ZHONG Tai-yang
ZHENG Zhe-qing
Source :
Journal of Southern Yangtze University: Humanities & Social Sciences Edition; 2008, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p72-76, 5p, 3 Charts
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

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]

Details

Language :
Chinese
ISSN :
16716973
Volume :
7
Issue :
4
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Journal of Southern Yangtze University: Humanities & Social Sciences Edition
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
35901847