Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
By J. Giles, R. Mu. Social Science Research Network, 2014
114 citations recorded by the source corpus.
&NA; This article investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents from 1995 to 2003. The article appeals to a simple model to frame the relationship between migration and the probability that a reallocation of land in the village will occur in the following year. Empirically, the article first demonstrates that a village leader's support for an administrative land reallocation carries with it the risk of losing a future election. Exploiting election timing and village heterogeneity in lineage group composition, the article identifies the effect of reallocation risk on migration decisions. In response to an expected land reallocation in the following year, the probability that a rural resident migrates out of the county declines by 2.4 percentage points, which accounts for 15% of the annual share of village residents, aged 16 to 50, who worked as migrants during the period. This finding underscores the potential importance of secure property rights for facilitating labor market integration and the movement of labor out of agriculture.
Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/defbcd55433056d4d00478d6978e0b89e8fda6aa
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Demography
In Political Science and International Relations
In Soil Science
Citations in the corpus
- Land Transfer and the Pursuit of Agricultural Modernization in China (2015, background): “The HRS land redistribution started in 1978 and was completed by 1984; as such, the contract starting year can differ by several years between provinces (Giles and Mu 2014).”
- Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature (2021, background): “In the context of Chinese rural areas, Giles and Mu (2018) show that the expectation of land reallocation”