funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71110107028,71033003 and 70803005);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZZD-EW-06-02);the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences(2011RC102 and 2012ZD008)
This paper contributes to the assessment of China's rural labor markets. According to our data, the increase in off-farm employment that China experienced during the 1980s and 1990s continued during the 2000s. Our an...