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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- 1. A New Era in China’s Demographic Dynamics / Gu Baochang -- 2. The Impact of Demographic Change on Labor Supply in China / Liao Shaohong and Zheng Zhenzhen -- 3. China’s Process of Aging before Getting Rich / Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan -- 4. The Demographic Dividend and Sustainability of China’s Economic Growth / Wang Dewen and Cai Fang -- 5. Transforming Unemployment Shock into Labor Market Development / Wang Meiyan and Cai Fang -- 6. Labor Cost Increase and Growth Pattern Transition / Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan -- 7. The Counterfactuals of Unlimited Surplus Labor in Rural China / Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan -- 8. Rural Labor-force Allocation Report—An Investigation of 2,749 Villages / Han Jun , Cui Chuanyi and Fan Aiai -- 9. Wage Arrears and Discrimination against Migrant Workers in China’s Urban Labor Market / Wang Meiyan -- 10. The Potentials of Labor Supply and Policy Reactions to the Lewis Turning Point / Du Yang -- 11. The Lewis Turning Point and Its Implications to Labor Protection / Du Yang , Gao Wenshu and Wang Meiyan -- 12. Educational Return and Resource Allocation between Rural and Urban Areas / Wang Meiyan -- 13. Industrialization Process in China: The Need to Break through the Conventional Mode / Pan Jiahua and Feng San -- 14. Globalization, Shortage, and Demand for Labor / Wang Dewen -- Index.

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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.