Moving off the farm and intensifying agricultural production in Shandong: A case study of rural labor market linkages in China

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-218

  Huang, Jikun ^a   Wu, Yunhua ^b   Rozelle, Scott ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit production; Labor market; Linkages; Off farm employment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CROP PRODUCTION; EDUCATION; FRUIT; LABOR MARKET; OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT; RURAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANDONG;

EID: 60849095825     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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