China in transition [[electronic resource] ] : poverty, income decomposition and labor allocation of agricultural households in Hebei Province / / Christian Böber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910297055003321
• Autore: Böber Christian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frankfurt am Main, : Peter Lang, 2012
• ISBN: 1-299-42248-9; 3-653-01676-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: Hohenheimer volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, , 0721-3085 ; ; Bd. 68
• Disciplina: 307.76092
• Soggetti: Hebei Sheng (China) Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Summaries in German and English.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations and acronyms; List of Chinese terms and expressions; Zusammenfassung; Summary; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Objectives; 1.3 Hypotheses; 1.4 Outline of the thesis; 2 Hebei province; 2.1 Location, population and natural conditions; 2.2 The rural areas of Hebei province; 2.3 Summary; 3 Development and state of rural institutions in China; 3.1 Transition in rural China; 3.2 Rural China prior the period of communism; 3.3 Collectivization; 3.4 Policy changes during the transition and the development of market institutions3.5 Farm households in China and Hebei; 3.5.1 General overview; 3.5.2 Part- and full-time farm households; 3.6 Alternatives to small scale farming?; 3.7 Summary; 4 Theory and methodology; 4.1 Development economics and measures of poverty and well-being; 4.1.1 Decomposition of income inequality; 4.1.2 Estimation of income inequality; 4.1.3 Poverty development and differences in poverty inequality for different population subgroups; 4.2 Labor allocation; 4.3 Agricultural household models; 4.3.1 The concept of utility maximization of agricultural households4.3.2 Separability of households' labor decisions; 4.3.3 Theoretical model for the assessment of a household's labor allocation; 4.3.4 Theoretical model for the assessment of farm structure persistence; 4.4 Summary; 5 Data; 5.1 Working with panel data; 5.2 The household data set; 5.3 ; Summary; 6 The trend of poverty and income decomposition for Hebei - Results; 6.1 Poverty trend; 6.2 Income decomposition; 6.2.1 Decomposition of income for 1986 and 2002; 6.2.2 Inequality in income; 6.2.3 Empirical Lorenz Curves; 6.3 Summary; 7 Empirical specifications and econometric testing of separability, agricultural household and farm structure persistence models7.1 Separability of households' labor demand and supply decisions; 7.1.1 Variable set for testing separability; 7.1.2 Results of testing for separability; 7.2 Labor market participation of farm househol; 7.2.1 Empirical model and choice of variables; 7.2.2 Estimation procedure, measures of model fit and calculation of predicted probabilities; 7.2.3 Results of estimating farm households' labor market participation; 7.3 Persistence and transition of farming structures over time7.3.1 The independent variable and the choice of explanatory variables; 7.3.2 Estimation procedure and model power; 7.3.3 Estimation results; 7.4 Summary; 8 Conclusions; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D