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

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dc.contributor.authorSheng, Yuen
dc.contributor.authorZhao, Yuhanen
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Qianen
dc.contributor.authorDong, Wanluen
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Jikunen
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-30T17:30:59Z
dc.date.available2025-05-30T17:30:59Z
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.description.abstractRural 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe acknowledge the financial support from the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Ref: 71934003), the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Ref: 7217030224 and 71873005), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ref: 2000000866), Australian Center for International Agricultural Research research project (Ref: ADP-2017-024). PKU-NSFC project (Ref: 2018KEY06). We also show our great thanks to Moyu Chen, Sihang Rao and Huayong Zhi for their research assistance work and Professor Jian Yu for providing the supplementary support. All errors belong to authors.en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.identifier.issn0305-750Xen
dc.identifier.otherORCID:/0000-0002-8467-6213/work/173374586en
dc.identifier.scopus85119345432en
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85119345432&partnerID=8YFLogxKen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733755241
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsPublisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Ltden
dc.sourceWorld Developmenten
dc.subjectRural development and structural transformationen
dc.subjectrural off-farm employmenten
dc.subjecturban gravity indexen
dc.titleBoosting rural labor off-farm employment through urban expansion in Chinaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.contributor.affiliationSheng, Yu; Peking Universityen
local.contributor.affiliationZhao, Yuhan; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciencesen
local.contributor.affiliationZhang, Qian; China Agricultural Universityen
local.contributor.affiliationDong, Wanlu; Chinese Academy of Social Sciencesen
local.contributor.affiliationHuang, Jikun; Peking Universityen
local.identifier.citationvolume151en
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105727en
local.identifier.purefa91b3ca-0feb-4bf1-97dc-f69e7743f68een
local.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85119345432en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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