The counterfactuals of unlimited surplus labor in Rural China

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks: Population and Labor

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 121-136

  Fang, Cai ^a   Wang, Meiyan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Comparative labor productivity; Income gap; Surplus labor; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940662438     PISSN: 1875936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004165762.i-286.56     Document Type: Article

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