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Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in Rural China: Gender, Off-farm Employment, and Wages

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  • Huayong Zhi
  • Zhurong Huang
  • Jikun Huang
  • Scott D. Rozelle
  • Andrew D. Mason

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This contribution documents the effect of the global financial crisis on women's off-farm employment in China's rural labor force. It begins by comparing the difference between the actual off-farm employment rate and the off-farm employment rate under the assumption of "business as usual" (BAU -- a counterfactual of what off-farm employment would have been in the absence of the crisis). The study also examines how the impact of the financial crisis hit different segments of the rural off-farm labor market. Using a primary dataset, the study found that the global financial crisis affected women workers. By April 2009, there was a 5.3 percentage point difference between off-farm employment under BAU and actual off-farm employment for women, and the monthly wages of women declined. Most of this impact affected migrant wage earners; however, the impact did not fall disproportionately on women. The recovery of women's employment was as fast as that of men's employment.

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  • Huayong Zhi & Zhurong Huang & Jikun Huang & Scott D. Rozelle & Andrew D. Mason, 2013. "Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in Rural China: Gender, Off-farm Employment, and Wages," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 238-266, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:19:y:2013:i:3:p:238-266
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2013.809137
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    1. Min, Shi & Liu, Min & Huang, Jikun, 2020. "Does the application of ICTs facilitate rural economic transformation in China? Empirical evidence from the use of smartphones among farmers," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    2. Giovanni Razzu & Carl Singleton, 2018. "Segregation and Gender Gaps in the United Kingdom's Great Recession and Recovery," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 31-55, October.
    3. Wang, Jing & Lyu, Kaiyu & Lv, Xinye & Feil, Jan-Henning, 2021. "Rainfall Risk and Nonfarm Self-Employment in Rural China: Does Digital Finance Have a Role to Play?," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315326, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    4. Jikun Huang & Shukun Wang & Zhihua Xiao, 2017. "Rising Herbicide Use and Its Driving Forces in China," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 29(3), pages 614-627, July.
    5. Su, Weiliang & Eriksson, Tor & Zhang, Linxiu & Bai, Yunli, 2016. "Off-farm employment and time allocation in on-farm work in rural China from gender perspective," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 34-45.

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