Education and off-farm work

In rural areas households allocate the time of their members to some combination of farm and nonfarm jobs. A salient feature of this dual employment choice is the educational selectivity of workers. The determinants of educational selectivity in a framework that emphasizes the coordination of househ...

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Published in:Economic development and cultural change 1997-04, Vol.45 (3), p.613-632
Main Author: Yang, D.T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
ACTIVIDADES COMPLEMENTARIAS (FINCA)
ACTIVITE COMPLEMENTAIRE DES RURAUX
Agricultural management
China
Correlation analysis
Crops
Cultural change
Demography
Economic development
Economic models
EDUCACION
EDUCATION
Education Work Relationship
Educational Attainment
Employment
EQUATIONS
ESTUDIO DEL TRABAJO
ETUDE DU TRAVAIL
Factors
Family farms
Farm economics
Farmers
Farming
Farms
Farmworkers
Food crops
Labor
Labor Force Participation
Labor supply
LABOUR MARKET
MARCHE DU TRAVAIL
MATEMATICAS
MATHEMATICS
MATHEMATIQUE
MERCADO DEL TRABAJO
OFF FARM EMPLOYMENT
Peoples Republic of China
PROFITABILITY
REMUNERATION
RENTABILIDAD
RENTABILITE
RETURNS
Rural areas
SALARIOS
SICHUAN
Studies
TIME ALLOCATION
Wages
Wages & salaries
Work
WORK STUDY
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Summary:In rural areas households allocate the time of their members to some combination of farm and nonfarm jobs. A salient feature of this dual employment choice is the educational selectivity of workers. The determinants of educational selectivity in a framework that emphasizes the coordination of household members are investigated. Sectoral time allocation is based on members' comparative advantage, which in turn depends on the utilization and returns to schooling in the farm and nonfarm sectors. Central to this model is a knowledge-spillover hypothesis that workers who participate in off-farm work may still contribute knowledge to farm management. Contributing knowledge to farming while participating in off-farm employment gives the more educated members a comparative advantage in off-farm work, allowing them to capture returns to education in both far and nonfarm sectors. Estimation of the model is based on cross-sectional Chinese farm household data.
ISSN:0013-0079
1539-2988
DOI:10.1086/452293