The Economic Analysis Of "the Educated Unemployment"

With the increasing deepening of China's higher education system reform, its scale is increasingly enlarging, while the situation of graduates' employment is becoming increasingly grim. The phenomenon of "educated unemployment" occurred, which means some graduates form the colleges can not find jobs or have to be engaged in jobs that were engaged by people who were less educated in the past. Getting increasingly serious, this issue has become one of the hottest issues for nowadays society, attracting high attention by various circles of society. Educated unemployment causes huge human resources waste, intensifies the gap between the rich and the poor, affects the stability and unity of the society and causes series of adverse effects on the study of the on-campus students, the education investment of the public, and the development of the higher education of China.Guided by the Marxist Theory, the thesis takes the phenomenon of "educated unemployment" as its research object and the employment difficulties of the college graduates as its topic, and uses the basic economic theory to analyze the issue from the view of economics. The thesis starts with the method of comprehensive summarization of literature to analyze the causes and countermeasure for concerning the educated unemployment both home and aboard. After that, social investigation method is used to study the influences caused by China's educated unemployment. And then, on the basis of the available academic study and theories of segmented dual labor markets, the relationship between the supply and demand and occupation search costs, its causes are further analyzed. Finally, by method of comparison I tried to propose some countermeasures to solve the issue of the educated unemployment.The problem of "the educated unemployment" is the by-product of the deepening process of China's education reform. It is the insurmountable gap of the development of developing countries. The macroscopic economic contradiction in the shortage of the available social demands and the abnormal development of higher education and its structural defect are depicted as the important cause resulting in educated unemployment. In addition, the thesis proposes solutions for the issue of China's educated unemployment from three aspects, namely, increasing the social labor demand for college graduates, improving high quality labor provision by the higher education institutions, and improving the labor markets of college graduates.