Lewisian Turning Point in the Chinese Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Turning Point in the Labor Surplus Economy: Concept and Approach

      • Ryoshin Minami

      Pages 3-14

3. Lewisian Turning Point in Asian Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Turning Point in Japan: Structural Change in the Labor Market and Significance

      • Ryoshin Minami

      Pages 17-41

   3. Structural Change of the Labor Market and the Turning Point in South Korea

      • Chang Nam Kim

      Pages 42-57

   4. Agricultural Surplus Labor and Poverty in Indonesia

      • Susumu Hondai, Kazutoshi Nakamura

      Pages 58-75

   5. Labor Market and the Lewisian Turning Point in China

      • Ryoshin Minami, Xinxin Ma

      Pages 76-100

4. Structural Change of the Labor Market in China: Facts and Factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Demographic Transition and Regional Employment

      • Fang Cai, Meiyan Wang, Yue Qu

      Pages 103-118

   3. Regional Migration and Structural Change in the Labor Market

      • Makoto Takada, Xu Li

      Pages 119-135

   4. Foreign Direct Investment and Employment

      • Jin Du, Hiromi Ishizuka

      Pages 136-154

   5. Labor Market Transformation in Shanghai

      • Shanping Yan

      Pages 155-180

   6. Labor Migration and Urban-Rural Income Disparity

      • Jinjun Xue, Wenshu Gao

      Pages 181-195

5. Summary and Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. China’s Turning Point from an East Asian Perspective: Prospective Recapitulation

      • Ryoshin Minami, Kwan S. Kim, Fumio Makino

      Pages 199-214

6. Back Matter

   Pages 215-216

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This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries. It closely examines the changing structure of China's labor market in the context of the Lewisisan turning point in ecomomic development.

• Asia
• China
• development
• East Asia
• employment
• labor market
• poverty
• structural change

• Hitosubashi University, Japan

  Ryoshin Minami

• Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, Japan

  Fumio Makino

• Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA

  Kwan S. Kim

Ryoshin Minami, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Kwan S.Kim, Notre Dame University, USA Fumio Makino, Hosei University, Japan Chang-Nam Kim, Dong-A University, South Korea Susumu Hondai, Kobe University, Japan Kazutoshi Nakamura, University of Nagasaki, Japan Xinxin Ma, Kyoto University, Japan Fang Cai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Meiyan Wang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Yue Qu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Makoto Takada, Meikai University, Japan Li Xu, Meiji University, Japan Jin Du, Takushoku University, Japan Hiromi Ishizuka, Sanno University, Japan Shanping Yan, Doshisha University, Japan Jinjun Xue, Nagoya University, Japan Wenshu Gao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

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