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The Change Of China's Employment System And The Choice Of Public Policy

Posted on:2005-05-20Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360122499102Subject:Industrial Economics
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Employment is not only an economic issue but also a political issue. The solution of the employment problem directly affects the social welfare and the sustainable development of the society. For a long time, employment has been considered as the by-product of economic development, due to the influence of the traditional planned economy system. Theoretical researches stick to the traditional economic dogma, focusing on the highly centralized economic distribution and planning ideas. As a result, employment policy in China lacks a clear strategy, especially lacks a control of the changing factors that affects the relation between the supply and needs of labor force resource, which leads to the overemphasis on economic growth and the slight on the employment in practical work, thus setting the cart before the horse concerning the devices and aims of economic development. In today's context of market-oriented economy, contradictions caused by employment are becoming more and more obvious. The management of employment is facing a significant challenge, which is both the demand of market economy and the actual condition of China. Recently, the growth of employment is listed as one of the four major controlling aims of the macro economy in China. Theoretically, only tentative researches are conducted on such issues as maintaining employment growth, dealing with employment and economic growth, promoting the development of labor force and developing the role of government in employment management. The research on employment aims to arouse the awareness of the urgency of employment situation in China and change the conventional ideas of employment and management strategies. By taking chance of the globalization of economy, improving the structure of the supply and need of labor force, and developing the elastic coefficient of employment, China will step on a road of economic development that meets both the demands of the economic development and the employment of labor force.Foreign studies in employment theories are fruitful. Early documents are mainly on the needs of labor force, which brings about the marginal theory concerning the needs of labor force. The representative is Keynes who suggested that the level of employment depends on the total needs .By the latter half of the last century, research focused on the study of the supply of labor force, represented by Gray. s. Backer, Schultz Theodore W. etc. , among whom Gray. s. Backer made the fundamental contribution in the research of the supply of labor force and paved way for the later researchers. In the study of the8mode of economic growth, Harrod Domar Model, New Classicism Mode, and New Cambridge Mode explored the affects of labor force allocation on the growth of economy, thus illustrating the implication of employment economy. Western economists like Lewis W Arthur examined the laws of the moving of population in developing countries to demonstrate the relation between the population moving and economic growth. In China, researches on the issue of employment are a recent topic, focusing mainly on the needs of labor force. Most researchers tend to agree that the fundamental solution to employment lies in expanding and creating the needs of labor force. Few researches are conducted on the particularity of China's employment, i.e, the . universality of total contradiction and structural contradiction. There remain controversies concerning whether employment should be of the preferential consideration of economic growth. For this reason, we should have a further and deeper research on the issue of employment in China.This dissertation follows and analyzes the historical change of employment system in China. By collecting large amounts of data and statistics based on the principles of economics, the dissertation discusses the logic relation between economic growth and employment, economic growth and employment change, China's employment situation, employment in other countries, China's employment triggering and the choice of public policy, and finally ends wi...
Keywords/Search Tags:Employment, Change of Employment System, Choice of public policy, China
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