Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine key determinants of farm labor market development in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – Probit, Logit, and IV-Probit model are used to provide pertinent empirical analysis. Findings – Analysis of survey data establishes three facts...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative impacts of full-scale land reallocation (FLR) and partial-scale land reallocation (PLR) on household land rental behavior in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – Probit model, Tobit model and Semi-parametric model are used...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of off-farm labor employments on household land rental behavior in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – IV-Probit and IV-Tobit model are used to identify the estimate of interest. Findings – The results indicate that...