Causes of Youth Unemployment and Coping Strategies in China
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https://doi.org/10.63313/EPP.2001Keywords:
Chinese Youth, Coping Strategies, UnemploymentAbstract
This paper builds an analytical framework of “structural contradiction-cyclical fluctuation-institutional friction”, and systematically analyzes the mul-ti-dimensional causes of youth unemployment in China: industrial upgrading leads to the coexistence of skill premium and crowding-out effect of low-skilled groups, faults on the supply side of education aggravate the mismatch of human capital, the downward transmission of macro-economy stalls the creation of jobs, and the imbalance of inter-generational preference for job selection and distorted market signals form the double superimposed effect. The study pro-poses systematic solutions of policy synergy, industry-education integration, regional coordination and conceptual reshaping, providing theoretical support and practical paths for cracking the youth unemployment dilemma.
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