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Despite large increases in recent years, hourly compensation costs in China’s manufacturing sector remained only 4 percent of those in the United States in 2008; that year, hourly compensation costs rose to $1.36, as China’s manufacturing employment continued to increase despite the beginning of the global economic downturn.
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