Study On Employment Effects Of Industrial Structure In The Yangtze River Delta Region

Industrial structure is the basis of economic growth, and also is the essence carrier of the labor force. A country or a region’s healthy economic development needs to be built on the coordination of industrial structure and employment, in essence which requires the rational allocation of resources. Research on industrial structure evolution can not only master the macroeconomic trends, but also can predict the micro employment situation, which will have an important guiding significance in making employment policies.Nowadays, China’s rapid economic growth does not bring the coordinated development of employment. The employment problems are not only about the number of labor supply, but also about the mismatching structure of supply and demand. Upgrade of industrial structure will inevitably cause the employment problem, for instance, it’s harder for university students to find jobs, labor shortage in the southeast coastal cities. As one of the most developed area in China, the number of the demand for labor in the Yangtze River Delta regions large and has a wide range. After years of development, the upgrading of industrial structure in this region has changed the original employment development path. If the employment situation could not be given full consideration to adjust and develop industry reasonably, it will affect the sustainable development of Yangtze River Delta region, and even the whole country.At present, scholars at home and abroad have a wide study on the employment effects of industrial structure, however, most scholars pay much attention to it on national level in both theory and empirical, few concerns about the topic in the regional labor market. Whereas, the employment effects of industrial structure has obvious regional differences. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on the employment effects of industrial structure from theoretical and empirical aspects based on Yangtze River Delta region.Based on the traditional theories of industrial structure development, the dissertation analyzes the Dual Economy models, and then finds the influence factors of industrial structure and employment, concluding the mechanism of influence. Furthermore, the dissertation establish the employment effects mode of industrial structure under the theories.In empirical study, according to the data of16cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, the dissertation adopts panel data model to analyze the employment effects of industrial structure. The result shows that the development of the secondary industry and tertiary industry employment effect on the Yangtze river delta region are negative, which reflects the rapid development and upgrading of industrial structure in Yangtze river delta has brought employment destructive impact.Finally, based on the results of theoretical and empirical study, the dissertation gives some policy recommendations for the Yangtze River Delta region from the industries development, industrial organization, and labor market in order to strengthen the positive employment effects of industrial structure.