关键词: 剩余劳动力 , 刘易斯转折点 , 二元经济结构

Abstract: The phenomenon of migrant worker shortage and labor wage growth in recent years had brought about a bitter controversy over the argument whether China had reached the Lewis turning point. The controversy of the Lewis turning point of China could be classified into four major categories, based on different standards and basis for judgment as well as various statistics. However, the fundamental contradiction between the labor wage growth and a high proportion of population of rural surplus labors could not deduced from the Lewis model. This paper provided a theory of serious segmentation in Chinas labor market and institutional barriers for labor mobility, which ignored by the Lewis model. Therefore, the classical Lewis theory would not be a suitable theory applied in Chinas labor market, which need to take institutional barriers and the urbanrural division into consideration.

Key words: surplus labor , the Lewis turning point , dual economic structure