LEADER 04178 am 22005413u 450 001 9910297055003321 005 20170815104216.0 010 $a1-299-42248-9 010 $a3-653-01676-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000337694 035 $a(EBL)1129218 035 $a(OCoLC)829460816 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000906471 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11492951 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906471 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10930958 035 $a(PQKB)10030090 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1129218 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000337694 100 $a20120618d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChina in transition$b[electronic resource] $epoverty, income decomposition and labor allocation of agricultural households in Hebei Province /$fChristian Bo?ber 210 $aFrankfurt am Main $cPeter Lang$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aHohenheimer volkswirtschaftliche Schriften,$x0721-3085 ;$vBd. 68 300 $aSummaries in German and English. 311 $a3-631-63328-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a3.4 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 327 $a4.3.1 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 327 $a7 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 327 $a7.3 Persistence and transition of farming structures over time7.3.1 The independent variable and the choice of explanatory variables; 7.3.2 Estimation procedure and model power; 7.3.3 Estimation results; 7.4 Summary; 8 Conclusions; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D 410 0$aHohenheimer volkswirtschaftliche Schriften ;$vBd. 68. 607 $aHebei Sheng (China)$xEconomic conditions 676 $a307.76092 700 $aBo?ber$b Christian$0916554 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910297055003321 996 $aChina in transition$92054601 997 $aUNINA