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American Economic Review Vol. 89 No. 2 1999

Migration, Remittances, and Agricultural Productivity in China

Scott Rozelle; J. Edward Taylor; Alan deBrauw

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.

Abstract

In our paper we have used the New Economics of Labor Migration framework to trace the complex linkages that exist among migration remittances and agricultural productivity [in China]. Constraints in the operation of on-farm labor and capital or insurance markets (or institutions) provide households with a motivation to migrate and distort on-farm operations when labor leaves. In our household sample the net impact of migration and remittances on maize production is negative. (EXCERPT)

DOI
10.1257/aer.89.2.287
Volume
89
Issue
2
Pages
287-291
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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