A survey by the Labor Security Administration of Guangdong Province in the cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Huizhou revealed that the province lacks 2 million laborers, the report said. Hubei and Zhejiang provinces are reportedly short of 400,000 and 860,000 workers respectively.It is one of the underlying reasons explaining why the position of workers in China is improving: there are just no longer enough of them.
The report said the labor shortage is partly explained by the development of rural areas, decrease in the wage gap between urban and rural laborers, reduction in the absolute number of rural migrant workers, and lack of advanced labor force resulting from industrial restructuring.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
2009: the year of the labor shortage
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