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Cooperating could, after all, depress wages of union members, and availability of surplus labour might weaken trade unions' bargaining power.
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Daniel Hamermesh notes that the Army is achieving enlistment goals for the first time in years, thanks to the amount of surplus labour available.
Such a system of casual employment could only work so long as there existed in every port a pool of surplus labour available to meet the demands of the port on its busiest day.
He is right about China running out of "surplus" labour.
The problem of surplus labour, however, remains to be solved.
In March Arthur Kroeber of GaveKal Dragonomics, a consultancy, declared the "end of surplus labour" in China.
Until recently, most estimates of surplus labour varied between 150m and 200m people.
Huge amounts of surplus labour and spare capacity threaten to entrench deflation.
The end of surplus labour is not an event, but a process.
For many years China's large pool of surplus labour held average pay rises below the rate of productivity growth.
Its share of Africa's GDP was around 9% in 2010 compared with 24% among the eight middle-income countries.Africa has lots of surplus labour.
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