China is a bad example of a place getting policy right to favour labour mobility. It is an extreme example of a place where labour mobility is so valuable it h

China is a bad example of a place getting policy right to favour labour mobility. It is an extreme example of a place where labour mobility is so valuable it happens in spite of restraints. In fact it is so extreme that it is hard to draw lessons for modern western countries (although it has obvious resemblances to urbanisation in Europe a few centuries ago).