报告题目：Off-farm employment and time allocation in on-farm work in rural China from gender perspective
报告人：经济学院 苏卫良 博士
报告时间：2016年11月17日 下午15点10分
报告地点：经济学院6号楼210室
组织发起：经济学院前沿文献与经典著作读书会
主办单位：经济学院
协办单位：科研处
内容摘要：
This paper sheds light on how the growing number of off-farm employees affects the labor allocation of female and male left-behind farmers in the Chinese agricultural sector. We find no direct effect of off-farm employment on left behind workers' total working time in farming, nor do we observe a gender difference in this respect. However, we do find that increasing off-farm work is associated with fewer days worked on staple crops, and in the harvesting and sales stages of the production process. Hiring labor and buying agricultural services also impact left behind workers' time allocation. Moreover, we find that in China, contrary to several other developing countries, there is no trend towards a feminization of agriculture, but rather a tendency in the reverse direction.
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