Agricultural trade and farm employment in China during 1994-2009: job creation or substitution?
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Agricultural trade and farm employment in China during 1994-2009 : job creation or substitution? / Zhu, Jing; Zhang, Shu; Yu, Wusheng.
I: China Agricultural Economic Review, Bind 5, Nr. 2, 2013, s. 180-196.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Agricultural trade and farm employment in China during 1994-2009
T2 - job creation or substitution?
AU - Zhu, Jing
AU - Zhang, Shu
AU - Yu, Wusheng
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Purpose – This paper therefore aims at systematically estimating the agricultural trade induced farm employment effects in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using detailed agricultural trade and production data during 1994-2009, the authors estimate the “labor contents” of agricultural trade flows and use these estimates to compute the farm employment effects. Findings – The authors find that China's agricultural trade has indeed generally developed along its widely believed comparative advantages and disadvantages; however, the farm employment “creation” effect due to labor-intensive exports has actually been dominated by the employment “substitution” effect due to increased land-intensive imports, thereby mostly resulting in negative net farm employment in the post-WTO accession era. Originality/value – Findings from this first systematic attempt to estimate the trade-induced farm employment effects do not lend support to the popular notion that increased agricultural trade would help increase farm employment and have important implications for evaluating current and future trade policy in China and elsewhere.
AB - Purpose – This paper therefore aims at systematically estimating the agricultural trade induced farm employment effects in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using detailed agricultural trade and production data during 1994-2009, the authors estimate the “labor contents” of agricultural trade flows and use these estimates to compute the farm employment effects. Findings – The authors find that China's agricultural trade has indeed generally developed along its widely believed comparative advantages and disadvantages; however, the farm employment “creation” effect due to labor-intensive exports has actually been dominated by the employment “substitution” effect due to increased land-intensive imports, thereby mostly resulting in negative net farm employment in the post-WTO accession era. Originality/value – Findings from this first systematic attempt to estimate the trade-induced farm employment effects do not lend support to the popular notion that increased agricultural trade would help increase farm employment and have important implications for evaluating current and future trade policy in China and elsewhere.
U2 - 10.1108/17561371311331089
DO - 10.1108/17561371311331089
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 180
EP - 196
JO - China Agricultural Economic Review
JF - China Agricultural Economic Review
SN - 1756-137X
IS - 2
ER -
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