China has reached the Lewis turning point

By Xiaobo Zhang, Jin Yang, Shenglin Wang. 2011

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Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being? (2017, background): “Since 2004, the labor market has become tighter, resulting in lower unemployment rates and more rapid increases in real wages (Zhang, Yang, and Wang 2011; Zhang et al. 2014).”
Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture (2017, background): “Yet that rise of machine use did not accelerate in the mid-2000s, when farm wages started to rise sharply in what has been identified as the Lewis turning point in China (Zhang et al. 2011).”
From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges (2017, neutral): “According to Cai and Du (2011) and Zhang, Yang, and Wang (2011), wages for unskilled workers showed double-digit growth starting in 2003–2004.”
An estimation of the extent of cropland abandonment in mountainous regions of China (2018, background): “Moreover, in rural China, the Lewis turning point arrived in 2003, indicating the beginning of China's nationwide labour shortage and the disappearance of the surplus labour from rural areas (X. Zhang et al., 2011).”
The future of small farms in Asia (2016, positive): “Meanwhile, in China, the economy has been rapidly growing over the last three and a half decades, and the wage rate has been rising sharply, particularly since 2003 (Zhang et al., 2011).”