Has China run out of surplus labour?

Many recent studies claim that China has reached a Lewisian ‘turning point’ in economic development, signalled by rising wages in urban areas and the exhaustion of rural surplus labour. In this paper we show that despite some evidence of rising nominal urban unskilled wages between 2000 and 2009, th...

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Volume:	22
Main Author:	Golley, Jane Meng, Xin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	NEW YORK Elsevier Inc 2011 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC Elsevier
published in:	China economic review Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 555 - 572
Data of publication:	2011
ISSN:	1043-951X 1873-7781
EISSN:	1873-7781
Discipline:	Economics
Series:	China Economic Review
Subjects:	Surplus labour Chinese labour markets Rural-urban migration Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Chinese labour markets Surplus labour Rural-urban migration Surplus labour Chinese labour markets O14 Rural-urban migration URBAN CHINA LEWIS TURNING-POINT RURAL MIGRANTS GROWTH
Online Access:	Fulltext
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