Semi-Proletarianization in a Dual Economy: The Case of China

Hao Qi

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2019, vol. 51, issue 4, 553-561

Abstract: This paper proposes a model to explain the wage increase for migrant workers in China since the mid-2000s. First, the model consists of a capitalist sector and a non-capitalist sector. Second, households are semi-proletarianized because they participate in both family farming and wage production. Third, capitalist firms determine the wage level in order to extract labor. The paper demonstrates that semi-proletarianization is one of the three stages of the long-term dynamics of a dual economy like China. In so doing, it provides an alternative to the Lewis turning point literature. JEL Classification : B51, O53, E24

Keywords: semi-proletarianization; dual economy; China’s economy; migrant workers; labor extraction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613419853876

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