Impact of the global financial crisis in rural China : gender, off-farm employment, and wages (English)

This contribution documents the effect of the global financial crisis on women's off-farm employment in China's rural labor force. It begins by comparing the difference between the actual off-farm employment rate and the off-farm employment rate under the assumption of "business-as-usual" (BAU) - a counter-factual of what off-farm employment will have been in the absence of the crisis. The study also examines how the impact of the financial crisis...

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Huang, Jikun;

Huang, Zhurong;

Mason,Andrew D.;

Rozelle,Scott Douglas;

Zhi,Huayong;
Document Date
2013/08/16
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
82812
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
China,
Region
East Asia and Pacific,
Disclosure Date
2015/02/16
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Impact of the global financial crisis in rural China : gender, off-farm employment, and wages
Keywords
off-farm employment

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Huang, Jikun; Huang, Zhurong; Mason,Andrew D.; Rozelle,Scott Douglas; Zhi,Huayong.

Impact of the global financial crisis in rural China : gender, off-farm employment, and wages (English). Author accepted manuscript Washington D.C. ; World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/504061528723978230

Impact of the global financial crisis in rural China : gender, off-farm employment, and wages (English)

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