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The Choice Of The United States Employment Promotion Policy Under The Financial Crisis And Its Enlightenment

Posted on:2011-12-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y YuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360305980901Subject:Political economy
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In 2007, the United States sub-prime crisis, sparking a global financial crisis; as the financial crisis spreading to the real economy and leading to the global economic slowdown, resulted in a large number of economic entities bankruptcy, and triggered global employment contraction. Faced with the grim employment situation, the governments should attach strategic importance to promotion of employment, and take a series of corresponding policies. Among them, the United States as a world economic power has advanced the unique ideas and experiences in employment promotion policies. It's provided materials and reference for other countries to take active employment policy.The financial crisis caused by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis brings great impact on our country's labor market. At the current stage, the overall characters of our employment is the"big four a prominent", that is a large population base, large working-age population, large rural surplus labor force, large employment difficulties population and prominent employment structural contradictions. At the same time, also face the"three meet again"situation of transition employment,youth employment and rural employment. In this background, the international financial crisis not only caused the state of a huge loss of corporate jobs, a large number of migrant workers to loss jobs and salary reduction, but also blocked the employment channel of town's new labor, aggravated the employment difficulties of college graduates, flexible employment groups, specially the disadvantaged groups. Faced with this situation, The State Council and relevant departments to formulate and implement a series of policies and measures of "ensuring economic growth, ensuring stability and ensuring people's livelihood"and large-scale 4 trillion investment plan, although beginning to achieve some results, the future economic trend is not clear, it need further wait and take more focused ,more forward-looking policy measures.The U.S. employment policy is not a panacea, but it's as one of the world's most developed countries, whose exploring in employment policy, also indeed a serious challenge in any developing country. And many other issues about the impact of the employment promotion policies on a country's economic and social development haven't been in-depth studies, so leave a lot of room to future research. The purpose of this research is to put forward the related countermeasures to resolve the current employment problems in China, through the analysis and research of the U.S. employment policy in the current financial crisis, and in accordance with China's conditions. This research includes the following sections.At first, this paper describes the impact of the financial crisis on the United States employment, it from two aspects of analysis, one is introduced the overall characteristics of the unemployment crisis caused by the financial crisis, the other is expounded the change layer by layer from the financial crisis to the unemployment social crisis.Second, analyzed the choices of the U.S. employment promotion policy under the financial crisis .The main contents include: the American Recovery and Reinvestment plan as the main content of demand employment policy; unemployment relief policy of combining employment promotion policy; the structural employment promotion policy of green jobs; improve the quality of employment policy to rescue the American middle class as the main content; to strengthen the labor unions as the main content policy. It pointed out that in current economic situation, the Obama administration should have taken employment promotion policies against the current financial crisis, aimed at through economic growth and new investment projects to create more employment opportunities. Then explained the importance theory to support this study , including the demise of neo-liberal policy that led to the financial crisis ;the Keynesian theory that claim to rely on state intervention in the economy, increasing social"effective demand" in order to achieve full employment; Labor employment and the Western middle-class theory; other new ideas and doctrines about to resolve the financial crisis, including the West low-carbon economic theory, decent works, green employment theory, all those for the current U.S. government's employment promotion policy choices to pave the way .Third, this research analyses the challenges of the United States employment promoting policy choice and implications for China. As the Obama government adopted a series of employment promotion policies, on the one hand make the current U.S. economy improving, on the other hand it also eased the social contradictions, it has provided a good environment to economic development. However, the employment rate was a lagging indicator, whether there will be a jobless economic recovery has needs a further wait. At the same time, Obama Government has faced enormous challenges, such as the jobless economic recovery, fiscal deficits and the impact of new type trade protection on China, these problems are needed to learning and attention.Last, concluded the revelation of the U.S. employment promotion policies on our country. On the basis of summary the experiences and lessons of the U.S. employment policy, and then combined with our country's condition and current employment promotion policy to put forward our country should take measures to improve the employment promotion policy on the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:employment, financial crisis, the United States, employment promotion policy, Green jobs
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