Lewisian Turning Point in the Chinese Economy: Comparison with East Asian Countries

by R. Minami (Editor), F. Makino (Editor), K. Kim (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137397263
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	06/30/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Ryoshin Minami PART I: LEWISIAN TURNING POINT IN ASIAN COUNTRIES 2. Turning Point in Japan: Structural Change in the Labor Market and Significance; Ryoshin Minami 3. Structural Change of the Labor Market and the Turning Point in South Korea; Chang-Nam Kim 4. Agricultural Surplus Labor and Poverty in Indonesia; Susumu Hondai and Kazutoshi Nakamura 5. Labor Market and the Lewisian Turning Point in China; Ryoshin Minami and Xinxin Ma PART II: STRUCTURAL CHANGE OF THE LABOUR MARKET IN CHINA: FACTS AND FACTORS 6. Demographic Transition and Employment Change; Fang Cai, Meiyan Wang and Yue Qu 7. Regional Migration and Structural Change in the Labor Market; Makoto Takada and Li Xu 8. Foreign Direct Investment and Employment; Jin Du and Hiromi Ishizuka 9. Labor Market Transformation in Shanghai; Shanping Yan 10. Labor Migration and Urban -Rural Income Disparity; Jinjun Xue and Wenshu Gao SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 11. China's Turning Point from an East Asian Perspective: Prospective Recapitulation; Ryoshin Minami, Kwan S. Kim and Fumio Makino