Lessons on Economics for NYT: China's "Labor Shortage"

An article on Hewlitt-Packard's decision to require suppliers in China to not use involuntary labor from students told readers:

"Enforcing workplace rules in China has always been difficult, as even Chinese laws on labor practices are flagrantly ignored by some manufacturers as they struggle to keep up with production demand amid labor shortages. The Chinese government announced last month that the nation’s labor force had begun to shrink slowly because of the increasingly rigorous one-child...