Chief Editor: Cai Fang

Deputy Chief Editor: Du Yang

This 2007 yearbook examines recent developments in the Chinese demographic transition and its implications, especially for the labor market. After many years of low population growth, China has reached the beginning stage of the Lewis Turning Point - the shift from a labor surplus economy to one of labor shortages - in the typical dualist model of rural and urban labor supply. This has brought pressures for increasing wages for the unskilled labor and has important implications for national development strategy and related policies. This yearbook is a collection of important articles by demographers and economists from CASS and other top research and policy institutes in China. Several of the articles in this volume are based on major labor and population surveys carried out in recent years.

Table of contents

Introduction
 Kam Wing Chan
 
GENERAL REPORT
 A New Era in China’s Demographic Dynamics
Gu Baochang
 
FOCAL ISSUES
 The Impact of Demographic Change on Labor Supply in China
 Liao Shaohong and Zheng Zhenzhen
 China’s Process of Aging before Getting Rich
 Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan
 Demographic Dividend and the Sustainability of China's Economic Growth
 Wang Dewen and Cai Fang
 Transforming Unemployment Shock into Labor Market Development
Wang Meiyan and Cai Fang
 Labor Cost Increase and Growth Pattern Transition
Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan
 Counterfactuals of Unlimited Surplus Labor in Rural China
Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan
 Rural Labor-force Allocation Report — Investigation of 2749 Villages
Han Jun, Chui Chuanyi, and Fan Aiai
 Wage Arrears for and Discrimination against Migrant Workers in China's Urban Labor Market
 Wang Meiyan
 The Potentials of Labor Supply and Policy Reactions to Lewis Turning Point
 Du Yang
 The Lewis Turning Point and Its Implications for Labor Protection
Du Yang, Gao Wenshu, and Wang Meiyan
 Educational Return and Resource Allocation between Rural and Urban Areas
Wang Meiyan
 Industrialization Process in China: The Need to Break through the Conventional Mode
Feng Jiahua and Feng San
 Globalization, Shortage, and Demand for Labor
Wang Dewei

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