abstract: 'The overall goal of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing

  assessment of China''s rural labor markets. To meet this goal, we have

  three specific objectives. First, we provide an update of the trends in

  off-farm labor participation and wages of the sample households and

  examine how labor market outcomes have changed for those with different

  levels of education. Second, we examine whether education in different

  time periods-the late 1980s, the early 1990s, and the mid-1990s-can be

  associated with increasing access to off-farm jobs. Finally, we examine

  how returns to education have changed during the course of the reform

  era. Both the descriptive data and the multivariate analysis robustly

  support the findings that, between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s,

  labor markets have improved in the sense that rural workers have been

  increasingly rewarded for their education both in terms of off-farm job

  access and higher wages. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science Inc.'
affiliation: 'Zhang, LX (Corresponding Author), Chinese Acad Sci, IGSNRR, Ctr Chinese
  Agr Policy, Beijing, Peoples R China.

  Chinese Acad Sci, IGSNRR, Ctr Chinese Agr Policy, Beijing, Peoples R China.

  Univ Calif Davis, Dept Agr \& Resource Econ, Davis, CA 95616 USA.'
article-number: PII S1043-951X(02)00075-5
author: Zhang, LX and Huang, JK and Rozelle, S
author_list:
- family: Zhang
  given: LX
- family: Huang
  given: JK
- family: Rozelle
  given: S
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/S1043-951X(02)00075-5
eissn: 1873-7781
files: []
issn: 1043-951X
journal: CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
keywords-plus: GROWTH; INEQUALITY
language: English
note: 'International Conference on Has China Become a Market Economy, UNIV

  AUVERGNE, CLERMONT FERRA, FRANCE, MAY 17-18, 2001'
number: 2-3
number-of-cited-references: '33'
pages: 313-328
papis_id: 90c9f1d4f4dcdf4241b5e1400e7e9f52
ref: Zhang2002employmentemerging
times-cited: '89'
title: Employment, emerging labor markets, and the role of education in rural China
type: Article; Proceedings Paper
unique-id: WOS:000177464700012
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '26'
volume: '13'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2002'