Climbing the development ladder
Economic development and the evolution of occupations in rural China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20303685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandeep Mohapatra (0000-0002-6891-1033, a University of California , Davis , USA, corresponding author), Scott Rozelle (0000-0001-5053-0243, a University of California , Davis , USA), Jikun Huang (0000-0001-7682-4477, b Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1023-1055 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220380600774988 |
| OpenAlex | W2135247223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
We study how occupations evolve across space and time during the development of an economy. Using a data set on more than 200 villages from 8 provinces in China, we examine the main occupations that have characterised China's labour markets since the economic reforms. Our findings reveal a systematic evolutionary pattern of occupational emergence: the evolution of occupations proceeds from traditional and fairly simple forms of subsistence agriculture to modern, more complex manufacturing and service firms. Our findings suggest that rural development in China is being built by a process that can be described by the climbing of a development ladder with each step up the ladder denoting the economy's transition into a more complex occupational regime
China · Climbing · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Political science · Rural development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Economic Growth and Productivity · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
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| Citations per year | 0.28 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |