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Economy Growth, Employment And Public Policy During The Transformation Of China

Posted on:2007-03-27Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y P PuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360212968484Subject:Technical Economics and Management
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Since reform and open-up to outside, China has maintained fast economic growth, but the employment problem becomes increasingly serious. Especially since 1997, there emerged increasing unemployment—that is the result of fast economic growth and high urban registered unemployment rate in China. Increasing unemployment becomes the main problem in China's macroeconomic operation and solving this problem becomes a new task for China, for the Chinese government and scholars all over the world.On the basis of the available research data relative to endogenous economic growth and unemployment, this paper made a positive analysis on the relationship of China's economic growth and employment, economic growth and unemployment, individual structure and employment structure change, using the method of statistical analysis, experience analysis, quality analysis, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, historical summary, and comparison research. And they are the theory basis of this research. Secondly, by filtering the factors that affecting economic growth and employment and constructing the model of labor demand and employment, this paper positively researches and tests the factors on employment. The author finds the main factor affecting employment during the transformation of China and the relationship between the main factor and all other factors. Lastly, this paper puts forward the formation mechanism of the non-coherence between economic growth and employment and also the policy solution to the problem of increasing unemployment.The main conclusions are as follows:(1)There is an interactive change between total employment and GDP in China, that is, economic growth propels the employment growth. But since the 1990s, the capacity of economic growth driving employment growth has been weakened. There are some characteristics of economic growth and employment.①Employment flexibility of economic growth to non-agriculture is bigger than total employment flexibility, which is a greater role of economic growth driving the non-agriculture sectors.②There are different individual-employment effect on economic growth. The individual regression equation, structure deviation degree and employment flexibility all suggest that employment in the primary industry has saturated and excluded labor, and there is limited space for the secondary industry to absorb labor, and the third industry has become the main sector absorbing labor.③There is different employment effect in different sectors inside one industry. Development of the secondary industry promoted...
Keywords/Search Tags:economic growth, industry structure, capital deepening, employment effect, public policy
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