TY - BOOK ID - 137686409 TI - The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment and earnings in rural China AU - Huang, Zhurong AU - Giles, John AU - Huang, Jikun AU - Rozelle, Scott AU - Zhi, Huayong PY - 2010 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agriculture KW - Crops & Crop Management Systems KW - Earning KW - Economic shocks KW - Education KW - Employment KW - Employment history KW - Employment rate KW - Employment rates KW - Employment status KW - Income distributions KW - Job loss KW - Jobs KW - Labor force KW - Labor market KW - Labor Markets KW - Labor Policies KW - Migrant labor KW - Public services KW - Rural labor KW - Rural workers KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Tertiary Education KW - Unemployed KW - Unemployment KW - Work & Working Conditions KW - Workers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137686409 AB - This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there was a substantial impact. By April 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly earnings also declined. However, while it is estimated that 49 million were laid-off between October 2008 and April 2009, half of them were re-hired in off-farm work by April 2009. By August 2009, less than 2 percent of the rural labor force was unemployed due to the crisis. The robust recovery appears to have helped avoid instability. ER -