The Influence of New Agricultural Business Entities on Farmers’ Employment Decision
2022
Lingjuan Cheng | Yilin Cui | Kaifeng Duan | Wei Zou
The purpose of this article is to explore the influence of new agricultural business entities on farmers&rsquo: employment decision and provide reference for improving policies related to new agricultural business entities and farmers&rsquo: employment. This paper constructs a theoretical analysis framework of &ldquo:new agricultural business entities&mdash:land transfer and purchase of agricultural socialized services&mdash:farmers&rsquo: employment decision&rdquo:, and then empirically tests the impact of new agricultural business entities on farmers&rsquo: employment decision by combining the analysis methods of the benchmark regression, propensity score matching and mediation effects. The research shows that: (1) New agricultural business entities are beneficial for promoting farmers&rsquo: employment decision. (2) Renting out land and the purchase of agricultural socialized services have a positive and partially mediating effect between the new agricultural business entities and farmers&rsquo: employment decision, and the mediating effects of the two paths account for 7.12% and 6.25% of the total effects, respectively. (3) In addition to key variables, personal characteristics of decision-making, family characteristics and production and management characteristics are also key factors that affect farmers&rsquo: employment decision. (4) The new agricultural business entities increase the probability of farmers&rsquo: employment (with legal contract) and entrepreneurship, and reduce the idle labor force in rural areas. Finally, this study proposes some policy recommendations including establishing a perfect farmland transfer market, developing rural industry properly and improving agricultural socialized service systems.
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