Analysis of the Influence Factors and Countermeasures on the Unemployment of Migrant Workers in China

Abstract

The migrant workers issue is related to the national socio-economic development. In recent years, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council have attached great importance to the issue of migrant workers and formulated a series of policy measures to protect their rights and improve their employment environment. Meanwhile, various regions and departments have done a lot of work and achieved significant results, however, the large-scale unemployment is still very prominent. Based on analysis of existing literature and data from the 2022 Monitoring and Investigation Report on China’s Migrant Workers released by the National Bureau of Statistics, this study explored the relevant factor lead to the unemployment issues and effective countermeasures to solve the outstanding problems. The results shows that the main reason are continuous reduction in employment demand, intensification of the job competition, limited skills and educational level of migrant workers and limited physical strength as they age, which can be solved by improving vocational and technical training system, optimizing the human resource market and other relevant policies. The findings have implications for the Chinese government’s formulation of promotion mechanism for more comprehensive and high-quality employment for rural migrant workers.