The Supply of Labour by Individuals to a Chinese Collective Farm
The Case of Dahe Commune
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9725609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John P Burkett, Louis Putterman (0000-0001-7825-2791) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 240 |
| Pages | 381 |
| Publication date | 1993-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2554568 |
| OpenAlex | W1987801564 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
We provide the first econometric tests of the theory of individual labour supply in a collective farm on data at the individual level. The data are for members of five production teams in a commune in Hebei Province in 1979. Our switching regressions model does not provide evidence of a significant labour supply response to differences in anticipated earnings. This failure may be indirect evidence of "under-differentiation' of payments, due to egalitarian ideology. Results imply that much of the labour supplied to the teams studied was discretionary, and not a response to coercive work norms. The implication that another significant portion of labour supplied was so coerced. Finds support for theoretical models which predict that labour could be over supplied because marginal payments reflected labour's average net product rather than its marginal product. -from Authors
Economics · Labour economics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |