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The Model of Commodity Prices after Sir Arthur Lewis Revisited

Ghoshray, A.; Perera, A. - Department of Economics, University of Bath - 2011

This paper builds on the work of Deaton and Laroque (2003) by formulating a nonlinear model of commodity prices. The paper makes three distinct contributions. First, a nonlinear model is constructed that explains long-run dynamics of commodity price behavior; secondly, more recent data is...

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China has reached the lewis turning point

Zhang, Xiaobo; Yang, Jin; Wang, Shenglin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

In the past several years, labor shortages in China have become an issue. However, there is heated debate as to whether China has passed the Lewis turning point and moved from a period of unlimited supply to a new era of labor shortage. Most empirical studies on this topic focus on estimation of...

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China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model

Knight, John - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

The paper uses the Lewis model as a framework for examining the labour market progress of two labour-abundant countries …

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China, South Africa and the Lewis Model

Knight, John - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2007

The paper uses the Lewis model as a framework for examining the labour market progress of two labour-abundant countries … CSAE WPS/2007-12 China, South Africa and the Lewis Model John Knight Department of ….knight@economics.ox.ac.uk Abstract. The paper uses the Lewis model as a framework for examining the labour market progress of two labour …

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China, South Africa and the Lewis Model

Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

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Migration and elastic labour in economic development : Southeast Asia before World War II

Huff, Gregg (contributor); Caggiano, Giovanni (contributor) - 2007

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