Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50795 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IAMO Forum 2011, Halle (Saale), June 23 - 24, 2011: Will the 'BRICs Decade' continue? – Prospects for trade and growth
Publisher: 
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricultural labor input and small-size machinery investment are gross complements rahter tha substitutes when machinery service is available in the market. Consequently, farmers with small machinery are more likely to reduce their off-time employment time.
Subjects: 
Small-size Machinery
Off-Farm employment
Complements
China
JEL: 
Q12
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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