Wage increases, wage convergence, and the Lewis turning point in China

China Economic Review

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 601-610

  Cai, Fang ^a   Du, Yang ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; Growth sustainability; Lewis turning point; Wage convergence; Wage increase

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155166381     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Bourgignon Francois, Fournier M., Gurgrand M. Distribution, development, and education: Taiwan, 1979-1994, paper presented at LACEA conference, Buenos Aires 1998.
2. Cai Fang The turning point and reorientation of Public Policy in Chinese economic growth. Social Sciences in China 2010.
3. Cai Fang Demographic transition, demographic dividend, and Lewis turning point in China. China Economic Journal 2010, 3(2):107-119.
4. Cai Fang, Du Yang, Zhao Changbao Regional labour market integration since China's world trade organization entry: Evidence from household-level data. China - Linking markets for growth 2007, 133-150. Asia Pacific Press, Canberra. R. Garnaut, L. Song (Eds.).
5. Cai Fang, Wang Meiyan Growth and structural changes in employment in transition China. Journal of Comparative Economics 2010, 38:71-81.
6. Cai Fang, Wang Meiyan, Qu Yue Industrial and labor relocations among Chinese regions. The Chinese Industrial Economics 2009, No. 8.
7. Chun Natalie Middle class size in the past, present, and future: A description of trends in Asia. ADB Working Paper Series 2010, No. 217. September.
8. Department of Rural Survey of National Bureau of Statistics (DRS-NBS) A mornitoring survey report on migrant workers in 2009. Report on China's population and labor (No. 11): Labor market challenges in the post-crisis era 2010, Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing, (China). F. Cai (Ed.).
9. Department of survey and statistics, People's Bank of China (DSS-PBC) The 5th monitoring report on migrant workers. Report on China's population and labor (No. 11): Labor market challenges in the post-crisis era 2010, Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing, (China). F. Cai (Ed.).
10. Du Yang, Wang Meiyan New estimate of surplus rural labor force and its implications. Journal of Guangzhou University (Social Science Edition) 2010, 9(4):17-24.
11. Fields, Gary S. (1998) Accounting for Income Inequality and its Change, Mimeo, Cornell University.
12. Freeman Richard Labor market and institutions in economic development. AEA Papers and Proceedings 1993, 403-408.
13. Hayashi Fumio, Prescott Edward C. The 1990s in Japan: A lost decade. Review of Economic Dynamics 2002, 5(1):206-235.
14. Hirschman Albert O. Exit, voice, and loyalty: responses to decline in firms, organizations, and state 1970, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
15. Knight John, Song Lina Towards a labour market in China 2005, Oxford University Press, New York.
16. Krugman, Paul (1994) The Myth of Asia's Miracle, Foreign Affairs (November/December).
17. Lewis Arthur Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour. The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies 1954, 22:139-191.
18. Lewis Arthur Reflections on unlimited labour. International economics and development 1972, 75-96. Academic Press, New York. L. Di Marco (Ed.).
19. Minami Ryoshin The turning point in the Japanese economy. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 1968, 82(3):380-402.
20. Minami Ryoshi Economic development and income distribution in Japan: An assessment of the Kuznets hypothesis. Cambridge Journal of Economics 1998, 22(1):39-58.
21. Minami Ryoshin Turning point in the Japanese economy, presented at the workshop in the project of Institute of Asian Cultures Toyo University. The discussion on the changes in East Asia labor market based on Lewisian turning point theory 2010, Tokyo, 18th-19th, July 2010.
22. Minami Ryoshi, Ma Xinxin The turning point of Chinese economy: Comparison with Japanese experience. China Economic Journal 2010, 3(2):163-179.
23. Minami Ryoshin, Ono Akira Behavior of income shares in a labor surplus economy: Japan's experience. Economic Development and Cultural Change 1981, 29(2):309-324.
24. Morduch Jonathan, Sicular Terry Rethinking inequality decomposition, with evidence from rural China. Economic Journal 2002, 112(476):93-106.
25. Moriguchi Chiaki, Saez Emmanuel The review of economics and statistics 2008, 90(No. 4):713-734.
26. Ranis Gustav, Fei John C.H. A theory of economic development. The American Economic Review 1961, 51(4):533-565.
27. Shorrocks Anthony F. Inequality Decomposition by Factor Components. Econometrica 1982, 50(1):193-211.
28. Wang Meiyan Changes of discrimination against migrant workers in China's urban labor market. China Labor Economics (Zhongguo Laodong Jingjixue) 2007, 4(1):109-119.
29. Wang Meiyan Educational Return and educational resource allocation between rural and urban areas - An empirical analysis using China's urban labor survey data. World Economy (Shijie Jingji) 2009, No.5:3-17.
30. Wang Meiyan The rise of labor cost and the fall of labor input: Has China reached Lewis turning point?. China Economic Journal 2010, 3(2):139-155.
31. Wang Meiyan, Cai Fang Gender earnings differential in urban China. Review of Development Economics 2008, 12(No.2).
32. Yao Yang, Zhang Ke Has china passed the Lewis turning point? A structural estimation based on provincial data. China Economic Journal 2010, 3(2):155-162.
33. Young Alwyn A tale of two cities: Factor accumulation and technical change in Hong Kong and Singapore, in Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer (eds) NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1992, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
34. Zhang Xiaobo, Yang Jin, Wang Shenglin China has reached the Lewis turning point. Journal of Zhejiang University (Edition of Humanities and Social Sciences) 2009, No. 9.
35. Zhang Junsen, Zhao Yaohui, Park Albert, Song Xiaoqing Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001. Journal of Comparative Economics 2005, 33:730-752.