China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 5 Issue 2

Agricultural trade and farm employment in China during 1994‐2009: Job creation or substitution?

Jing Zhu, Shu Zhang, Wusheng Yu

This paper therefore aims at systematically estimating the agricultural trade induced farm employment effects in China.

Re‐examination of the surplus agricultural labour in China

Fung Kwan, Yanrui Wu, Shuaihe Zhuo

This paper aims to contribute to the pool of studies of rural underemployment in China. It is devoted to the conceptualization and measurement of surplus labour.

Beyond Lewis: rural‐to‐urban migration with endogenous policy change

Zhao Chen, Xiaofeng Liu, Ming Lu

This paper aims to answer the following questions concerning rural‐to‐urban labor migration in China: What is the impact of discrimination against non‐Hukou in urban public…

Self‐employment or wage‐employment?: On the occupational choice of return migration in rural China

Zi‐cheng Wang, Wei‐guo Yang

The purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact of return migration on the occupational choice in rural China.

Project design, village governance and infrastructure quality in rural China

Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang, Renfu Luo, Hongmei Yi, Yaojiang Shi, Scott Rozelle

This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to village and how project quality is correlated with project design…

Land tenure security and land investments in Northwest China

Xianlei Ma, Nico Heerink, Ekko van Ierland, Marrit van den Berg, Xiaoping Shi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of perceived land tenure security in China on farmers' decisions to invest in relatively long‐term land quality improvement…

Introduction to the special issue on “China’s agricultural development in global perspective”

Weiming Tian, Zhangyue Zhou