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The Mystery of China’s Labor Shortage

The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Blog looks at reports of a severe labor shortage in China’s manufacturing centers: So where have all the theoretically jobless peasants gone? Structural unemployment – a mismatch between the skills workers have and those sought by employers – doesn’t fully explain the phenomenon. To answer the question, one needs to consider a combination of fac

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