TY - JOUR
AU - deBrauw, Alan
AB -  By SCOTT ROZELLE, J. EDWARD TAYLOR, AND ALAN The migration of labor out of agriculture is a quintessential feature of economic development and modernization, both historically in developed countries and currently in developing ones. Approximately 70 percent of China’s labor force is in the agricultural sector, a high level for a country with China’s per capita income. If China follows the occupational migration pattern of other nations, a 10-percent increase in per capita GNP can conservatively be expected to decrease the share of the workforce employed in agriculture by 3.1 percentage points (Taylor and Philip Martin, 1999 ) . As urbanization and GNP growth proceed in China, the outflow of resources from the farm sector and the rising demand for food will increase the pressure to raise agricultural productivity, and questions about the role that migration plays in China’s development will grow more controversial and attract the attention of concerned policymakers. One of the reasons for controversy with respect to migration almost certainly lies in the fact that rural officials differ in their answers to a series of fundamental questions concerning migration and development. What factors trigger migration and motivate migrants to remit a portion of their incomes? 
TI - Migration, Remittances, and Agricultural Productivity in China
JF - American Economic Review
DO - 10.1257/aer.89.2.287
DA - 1999-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-economic-association/migration-remittances-and-agricultural-productivity-in-china-B7zF0nfeue
SP - 287
EP - 291
VL - 89
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -