Labor productivity and migration in Chinese agriculture a stochastic frontier approach

China Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-74

  Bhattacharyya, Arunava ^a   Parker, Elliott ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese rural labor; Labor migration; Measurement errors; Stochastic frontier; Surplus labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002418289     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-951X(99)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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