Graduate Unemployment in China: A Market Demand Perspective
نویسنده
چکیده
China’s recent upsurge in graduate unemployment has aroused increasing attention of the society. This paper reviews a couple of classical theories about graduate employment, including over-education, educational deepening and educated unemployment, labor market segmentation, as well as supply-demand structural imbalance. It also analyzes five influential factors in market demand for graduates, namely economic development and industrial structure adjustment, labor market mechanism, recruitment tendency of employer, structural problem of higher education, high employment expectation and frictional unemployment. Measures and considerations of how to increase the market demand for graduates are then presented.
منابع مشابه
Evaluation of Efficiency of Signals of Choosing Educational Field From The Perspective of Labor Market Needs
Due to the undesirable phenomenon of graduate unemployment and its negative effects, Addressing the issue of how to major choice is of particular importance. The main question of the research is whether the existing signals of choosing a field have been effective in guiding people in accordance with the needs of the labor market? The method of this research is descriptive-analytical; It has bee...
متن کاملآموزش و بیکاری فارغالتحصیلان
Employment of graduates is considered at national level as a a problem for the educational planners in diffrent countries. This is of great concern because not only the employment market is at the core of social and ecomomic development but also it gives individuals a social role to play through gainful employment. This article describes the problem, analyses the relationship between education ...
متن کاملDiagnosing Unemployment Insurance in the Golestan Province
This research aimed to diagnose the reason to increase in the total number of unemployment insurance applicants (claimants) in the Golestan province in order to find realistic solutions. From the perspective of data collection, this research is a field-based, in terms of controlling variables is non-experimental research and with regard to purpose is applied research. Quantitative and qualitati...
متن کاملExploring relationship between the development of small and medium scale enterprises and the employment of universities graduate
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Over recent years the employment creation discussion was massively raised especially about university graduates and demands from Iran's government increased. The prediction of the youth unemployment rate during the period from 2015 to 2021 showed that with an annual growth rate of 5%, in the last year of the period, the unemployment rate for youth wou...
متن کاملInvoluntary unemployment, macroeconomic policy, and a behavioral model of the firm: Why high real wages need not cause high unemployment
The perspective of modern macroeconomic theory, be it new classical or old and new Keynesian, is that unemployment can be reduced only if real wages are cut. The modern Keynesians, basing themselves upon the microfoundations of efficiency wage theory, argue that real wages cannot and will not be cut by firms for efficiency wage reasons. This generates involuntary unemployment based on a market ...
متن کامل