A startling report from Monash University indicates internal migration controls are causing labour shortages in high growth Chinese provinces and leading to a conclusion that the days of cheap labour are over in the world’s most populous country.
According to the latest issue of Monash Business Review foreign businesses inSijun Shao, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Management at
“With its new-found confidence, understanding of workers’ rights and the appreciation of the values of their labour, homo economicus is causing difficulties for foreign investors and multinational organisations recruiting cheap labour.
“And with reports beginning to surface of a severe labour shortage in
Although many believe
Despite the fact that 150 million rural Chinese have moved to cities in search of work since 1978, migration from the rural to the urban sector has been largely constrained by
“Foreign businesses in