The The Role of Education in Employment in Agriculture and Agriculture Performance in China

English

Abstract

This study aims to understand the direction of the relationship between employment in agriculture, education, and agriculture performance. This study uses the VAR method to see the response and encouragement between variables so that the dependent variable in this study is employment in agriculture,employment performance, and education in China. We found that education investment has a positive relationship to agricultural performance driven by agricultural performance in the previous period and negatively related to employment in agriculture in China. However, from this it can be seen that productivity which is the result of developing human capital through educational mechanisms is getting bigger. Where labor productivity increases with time. However, looking at the graph of employment in agriculture which continues to decline very sharply, it becomes a threat in itself in the future. Because there is a decline in performance in the future due to a shortage of labor and it is possible that the agricultural sector will be completely destroyed when there is a shortage of labor in this sector if the interest of the Chinese young generation in the agricultural sector is not invested.