China’s labor markets are flashing a warning sign, with new job adverts on a leading recruitment website sharply down in April, and job losses in manufacturing spreading to the services sector.
With the official data on labor markets infrequent — and, in some cases, misleading — alternative indicators take on an added significance. China Real Time took advantage of China’s glut of recent graduates to have an unpaid intern find the best guides to the state of hiring and firing.
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via Seeking Help — For China’s Labor Market – China Real Time Report – WSJ.
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