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Mitali Das and Papa N’Diaye at the IMF said China’s supply of low-cost workers will run out between 2020 and 2025 pushed by a precipitous drop in the working-age population, and necessitating a shift to a more intensive growth model with a greater reliance on improving total factor productivity.
A 2010 paper – “China Has Reached the Lewis Turning Point” – from the International Food Policy Research Institute said dramatic increases in inflation-adjusted wages since 2004 indicate the era of surplus labor is over.
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