The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China.

By John Knight, Quheng Deng, Shi Li. 2010

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Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China (2012, background): “Interestingly, Knight et al. (2009) also found a significant positive relationship between countylevel Gini coefficients and happiness when exploring the happiness determination of rural Chinese residents.”
National innovation system, social entrepreneurship, and rural economic growth in China (2017, background): “Although rural economic development is not easily quantified, it can be captured to some extent by rural labor productivity and labor income, due to their relative visibility and stability (Golley andMeng, 2011; Knight et al., 2011).”
Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, unknown): “the movement of labor out of agriculture, which is well illustrated by the development path of Japan in the 1950s and 1960s and of South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s (Knight et al. 2011).”
Inequality in China: An Overview (2013, unknown): “Much of this increase was due to increased rural-urban migration; the employment of rural migrants in urban areas rose from 30 million to 132 million over that period (Knight et al. 2011).”