Dualism in the Labor Market: A Perspective on the Lewis Model after Half a Century

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The efficiency of smallholder agriculture in Malawi (2009, background): “The labor market dualism theory (Fields, 2004) holds that households in the traditional agricultural sector enjoy lower labor costs as they tend to use family labor more intensively than do large farms.”
Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size (2009, background): “regulations or having the official work permit are more likely to be more important for this type of employees.(21) Therefore, enforcement should be related mostly to the employment of unskilled workers.”
China has reached the Lewis turning point (2011, background): “See Fields (2004) for a recent review of the Lewis turning point.”