China Briefing has a useful table on wage costs across Asia.
According to China Briefing: “China’s workers are now amongst some of the best paid in Asia”, and: “…it signals that an exodus of export driven manufacturing may occur, principally to competing, lower-cost Asian nations for China’s residual export driven manufacturing.” More, here.
Lots of China podcasts on wages and factories are here. Some useful China and global apparel stats are here.
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Thanks. That is really interesting. Have you seen data that compares wages for different skill levels across Asian countries? -Vera