Labor Transfer, Service Outsourcing and Farmland Transfer: Based on Evidence from the Rural Households' Labor Transfer Data ——Evidence from the Rural Households' Labor Transfer Data
Labor Transfer, Service Outsourcing and Farmland Transfer: Based on Evidence from the Rural Households' Labor Transfer Data ——Evidence from the Rural Households' Labor Transfer Data
TAN Zhuping, GENG Pengpeng, LUO Biliang
National School of Agricultural Institutional and Development, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Abstract Based on the data of farmers in 9 provinces (regions), this paper analyzes the influence of agricultural labor transfer distance on farmers' farmland transfer. The results show that the farther the spatial distance of labor transfer is, the more it can strengthen farmers' behavior tendency of farmland transfer. Further study finds that there is a “threshold effect” in the impact of farmers' labor transfer on the transfer of agricultural land. That means that only when the non-agricultural transfer of labor among farmers reaches a certain proportion, it will have an impact on the transfer of farmland. After using proxy variables and instrumental variables to solve the endogenous problem, the impact of rural labor transfer on farmland lease-out still obtains a consistent conclusion. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the labor transfer of rural households who has high-level non-agricultural income and the non-agricultural employment of physical labor force have a more significant positive impact on farmland transfer. In addition, from a sub-region point of view, the impact of labor transfer on the transfer of farmland from rural households presents a regional pattern of weakening in the central, eastern and western regions. However, once farmers are involved in the division of labor and outsourcing agricultural production services, it will significantly weaken the positive effect of non-agricultural labors'transfer on farmland rental activity. This shows that there is a mutual growth and decline relationship among the market of agricultural labor force, agricultural socialized services, and agricultural land transfer.
TAN Zhuping,GENG Pengpeng,LUO Biliang. Labor Transfer, Service Outsourcing and Farmland Transfer: Based on Evidence from the Rural Households' Labor Transfer Data ——Evidence from the Rural Households' Labor Transfer Data. Economic Survey, 2022, 39(3): 035.
2022, Vol. 39 
