Research on China's Medium and Long-term Unemployment Problem: Mainly Based on the Change of Industrial Structure: Mainly Based on the Change of Industrial Structure

Author: Jiang Xuan
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book takes the change in industrial structure as the main thread, studying the causes of unemployment in China and its fundamental solutions from a series of related contradictions. Against the backdrop of the reversal of China's overall supply-demand relationship, the transformation of economic growth models, comprehensive opening-up, and deepening of institutional reforms, the book sorts out various viewpoints on the causes of unemployment in China. It focuses on researching China's medium and long-term unemployment issues from the perspective of industrial structure changes, analyzing several major issues (contradictions) related to employment in the process of industrial structure changes, including technological progress, strategic choices and practical conditions for developing labor-intensive industries, labor transfer from declining industries, and the transfer of surplus agricultural labor. On this basis, it explores governance strategies to alleviate China's medium and long-term unemployment pressure, primarily by improving the labor market mechanism and enhancing labor quality. These strategies include mechanisms for free labor mobility and limited elastic prices (wages), unemployment insurance systems, and training and education systems at all levels.