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Surging wages 'threaten economy's competitiveness'

China Daily | Updated: 2013-04-10 14:10

China's surging wages and other costs are showing signs of undermining the competitiveness of the nation's economy, threatening its growth potential, the Asian Development Bank said.

Average inflation-adjusted wages have more than tripled in a decade, and non-wage costs for procedures such as hiring and firing have risen since the introduction of a 2008 labor law, the ADB said in a report published on Tuesday.

The labor market is being squeezed across the nation as the pool of working-age people shrank last year.

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