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Female Off-Farm Employment and Fertility Timing in Rural China [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundAdvanced maternal age is associated with fetal outcomes such as higher risks of birth defects and very low birth weight. Off-farm employment is an important factor in fertility transition in many developing countries.
Zheng Shen +4 more
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Employment History and Off-Farm Employment of Farm Operators [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1995 AbstractEmployment history affects subsequent choices. Based on their original job choice, operators are divided into farmers and workers. Equations are estimated to determine their probabilities of working off-the-farm. Education increases the probability that workers work off-the-farm, whereas vocational training increases farmers' probability.
Stallmann, Judith I., Nelson, James H.
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Does off-farm employment contribute to chemical fertilizer reduction? New evidence from the main rice-producing area in Jilin Province, China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Frequent transfer of rural labor to cities in developing countries significantly impacts agricultural production. However, whether off-farm employment can promote chemical fertilizer (CF) reduction is still controversial. This study incorporates business
Yu Lang +3 more
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Agriculture, 2022 Understanding the effects of the off-farm employment of rural laborers on agricultural land use is essential to promote farmland transfer and enhance rural development in China.
Caihua Xu +4 more
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Off-farm employment and poverty alleviation in rural China
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2021 Two phenomena in the history of China’s economic growth during the last four decades are the increase in the share of off-farm employment and the progress in poverty alleviation in rural China.
Shao-ping LI +3 more
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Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus
Agriculture, 2018 Off-farm employment is an important strategy for complementing farm household income and maintaining rural livelihoods. A multilevel logistic regression model was applied to investigate the effect of farm-level and regional-level factors on off-farm ...
Elias Giannakis +2 more
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Heliyon, 2021 Non-farm employment in agrarian communities in developing countries has received a lot of attention. However, its role in implementing climate change adaptation strategies is rarely discussed.
Gideon Danso-Abbeam +3 more
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Labor Off-Farm Employment and Cropland Abandonment in Rural China: Spatial Distribution and Empirical Analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018 Xin Deng, Dingde Xu, Yanbin Qi
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The effect of village attraction on rural household clean energy transition: An explanation from informal off-farm employment [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue, 2023 [Objective] Accessing modern and clean energy can provide a win-win opportunity for rural households by improving the living standard and family welfare.
CHANG Huayi, ZHANG Junbiao, HE Ke
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Does Off-Farm Employment Promote the Low-Carbon Energy Intensity in China’s Rural Households?
Energies, 2023 A study linking the two economic and social phenomena of rural labor force migration and energy transition can help analyze the underlying causes of rural “Energy Poverty”.
Ping Wang, Shen-Li Li, Shao-Hui Zou
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