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China in transition : poverty, income decomposition and labor allocation of agricultural households in Hebei province /
In China, inequality in social welfare is of rising political concern. This case study analyzes the determinants of well-being of rural households in Hebei using a secondary panel data set (1986 to 2006). One key question is how well-being was affected by institutional changes in times of societal t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt am Main ; New York :
Peter Lang,
2012.
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| Colección: | Hohenheimer volkswirtschaftliche Schriften ;
Bd. 68. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations and acronyms; List of Chinese terms and expressions; Zusammenfassung; Summary; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Objectives; 1.3 Hypotheses; 1.4 Outline of the thesis; 2 Hebei province; 2.1 Location, population and natural conditions; 2.2 The rural areas of Hebei province; 2.3 Summary; 3 Development and state of rural institutions in China; 3.1 Transition in rural China; 3.2 Rural China prior the period of communism; 3.3 Collectivization.
- 3.4 Policy changes during the transition and the development of market institutions3.5 Farm households in China and Hebei; 3.5.1 General overview; 3.5.2 Part- and full-time farm households; 3.6 Alternatives to small scale farming?; 3.7 Summary; 4 Theory and methodology; 4.1 Development economics and measures of poverty and well-being; 4.1.1 Decomposition of income inequality; 4.1.2 Estimation of income inequality; 4.1.3 Poverty development and differences in poverty inequality for different population subgroups; 4.2 Labor allocation; 4.3 Agricultural household models.
- 4.3.1 The concept of utility maximization of agricultural households4.3.2 Separability of households' labor decisions; 4.3.3 Theoretical model for the assessment of a household's labor allocation; 4.3.4 Theoretical model for the assessment of farm structure persistence; 4.4 Summary; 5 Data; 5.1 Working with panel data; 5.2 The household data set; 5.3 Summary; 6 The trend of poverty and income decomposition for Hebei
- Results; 6.1 Poverty trend; 6.2 Income decomposition; 6.2.1 Decomposition of income for 1986 and 2002; 6.2.2 Inequality in income; 6.2.3 Empirical Lorenz Curves; 6.3 Summary.
- 7 Empirical specifications and econometric testing of separability, agricultural household and farm structure persistence models7.1 Separability of households' labor demand and supply decisions; 7.1.1 Variable set for testing separability; 7.1.2 Results of testing for separability; 7.2 Labor market participation of farm househol; 7.2.1 Empirical model and choice of variables; 7.2.2 Estimation procedure, measures of model fit and calculation of predicted probabilities; 7.2.3 Results of estimating farm households' labor market participation.
- 7.3 Persistence and transition of farming structures over time7.3.1 The independent variable and the choice of explanatory variables; 7.3.2 Estimation procedure and model power; 7.3.3 Estimation results; 7.4 Summary; 8 Conclusions; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D.