Does a higher minimum wage accelerate labour division in agricultural production? Evidence from the main rice-planting area in China
| Autor: | Yangli Guo, Xiaoyu Duan, Wanjiang Yang, Houjian Li, Lili Guo, Yanjun Ren |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Economics and Econometrics
China Economic growth development planning control function (c.f.) approach Agricultural economics Outsourcing Regional economics. Space in economics Economics ddc:330 Minimum wage Agricultural productivity production outsourcing minimum wage control function (C.F.) approach health care economics and organizations business.industry Sowing food and beverages Division (mathematics) D2 D1 HT388 HD72-88 D24 business china |
| Zdroj: | Ekonomska Istraživanja, Vol 0, Iss 0, Pp 1-27 (2021) Economic research-Ekonomska istraživanja Volume 35 Issue 1 |
| ISSN: | 1848-9664 1331-677X |
| Popis: | Agricultural production outsourcing, a new means of agricultural production, can optimise the allocation of resources, reduce agricultural production costs, and improve agricultural productivity. However, farmers’ outsourcing behaviours are strongly interfered with by many factors such as economics, technology and institutions. Using a farmer-level data set from 2014 to 2018 in China, we examine the effects of the minimum wage increase on rice farmers’ production outsourcing behaviours. Our study relies on a Logit regression framework and uses the control function (C.F.) approach to address potential endogeneity concerns. Results show that the minimum wage increase significantly reduces the probability of farmers conducting production outsourcing. We also examine the heterogeneous effects of the minimum wage increase, and find that compared with other outsourcing services, the adverse effects on harvesting outsourcing are the strongest; the negative effects on production outsourcing are stronger for rice farmers with higher education. Our results provide new insights into understanding how labour regulation affects labour division in agricultural production. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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