Labor off‐farm employment and household forest management investment in Jiangxi, China: A perspective from gender influence of rural labor,Natural Resource Modeling

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Labor off‐farm employment and household forest management investment in Jiangxi, China: A perspective from gender influence of rural labor
Natural Resource Modeling ( IF 1.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-14 , DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12246
Fangting Xie _{1,

2} , Xiaolan Kang ₁ , Juan Du ₃ , Xiaojin Liu ₃ , Shubin Zhu _{1,

2}

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That numerous rural laborers migrate to urban areas to find off‐farm jobs has become an outstanding economic phenomenon in China. To examine the impact of rural labor off‐farm employment on household forest management, we built binary logistic models and Tobit models by applying a sample survey data of 500 households in rural Jiangxi in 2018. Households’ participation and investment in forest management were measured by their labor and cash input. The results indicated that more off‐farm laborers in household would hold back their participation in cash input. In contrast, a higher rate of female off‐farm employment encouraged household monetary input. And households with more female agricultural laborers were more likely to participate in labor input. Neither off‐farm employment nor female off‐farm employment significantly influences households’ labor input. Off‐farm employment of the householder negatively influenced labor and cash input. Policy factors, such as obtaining forestry subsidies and forestry loans, joining forestry co‐operative organizations, and better attitude to the logging quota system, also promoted households’ participation and investment in forest management. Household head's age and education, forestry land status also affected participation in forest management. Our analysis could provide basis for managers to formulate policies to support sustainable forest management.

更新日期：2019-11-14

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