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

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? 2021 Elsevier LtdRural 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.

Rural development and structural transformationrural off-farm employmenturban gravity index

Sheng Y.、Zhao Y.、Zhang Q.、Dong W.、Huang J.

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China Centre for Agricultural Policy & School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences Peking University

Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

College of Land Science and Technology China Agriculture University

Institute of Quantitative and Technological Economics Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

China Centre for Agricultural Policy & School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences The Peking University

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2022

World Development

World Development

SSCI
ISSN:0305-750X
年,卷(期):2022.151
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