Title :
Impact of Sloping Land Conversion Program on off-farm employment
Author :
Guo, Bin ; Yao, Shunbo ; Wang, Zhengbing ; Zhen, Jing
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Econ. & Manage., Northwest A&F Univ., Yangling, China
Abstract :
Using a panel data between 1999 and 2006 set of 605 households in Loess Plateau Region, China, and Differences in Differences (DD) method and Matching Method, we evaluate the Program´s impact on the off-farm employment. Our empirical study results show that, SLCP has made a significant impact on the off-farm employment since it has been implemented for 7 years. SLCP has significantly increased the probability of shifting the rural labor from on-farm work to off-farm work by 11 percent with DD method, and also a consistent result by at least 17 percent with matching methods.
Keywords :
employment; farming; land use planning; differences method; matching method; off farm employment; sloping land conversion program; Economics; Educational institutions; Employment; Forestry; Lead; Production; Retirement; Difference in Differences Method; Matching Method; Off-Farm Employment; Slopping Land Conversion Program;
Conference_Titel :
Business Management and Electronic Information (BMEI), 2011 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-108-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBMEI.2011.5920460
