People who pay attention to finance and economics know that there is a particularly important index in the United States is the non-farm payrolls index, especially those who are keen on the US dollar exchange rate and trading, and the Friday night of the first week of each month is a particularly nervous time for many speculators. Because this index directly reflects the recent employment of the non-farm population in the United States, it affects the world's commodities**.
Compared with the non-farm payrolls index in the United States, China's urban unemployment rate is less important. China's urban unemployment rate reflects only the employment situation of China's urban population.
However, in recent years, the problem of employment has been particularly prominent in the country, and it has been reported that China's youth unemployment rate is 20%, and the number of young people now engaged in freelance work is increasing.
To that end, shouldn't we create a flexible employment index in the near future?
First of all, the number of people who are flexibly employed is the number of food delivery riders on major platforms, the number of drivers of ride-hailing and trucking platforms, and the number of temporary employees.
Secondly, you may wonder why this statistical unit was established, simply put, these are the occupations of people living at the bottom of society. In particular, some Internet platforms now exploit riders and ride-hailing drivers very seriously. Internet operators have built up a huge amount of data computing power, and under the control of this computing power, there are not many delivery people engaged in the rider industry, and the timeliness of each order is particularly strong, and riders need to pay fines if they exceed the specified time. Although there is no standardized social security for such a job, only commercial accident insurance, there are tens of millions of workers in China who are engaged in this job, and these people are not for high salaries, nor for easy life, but more because of the employment pressure caused by overwork.
Thirdly, the significance of establishing a flexible employment index is to objectively reflect the employment problem of China's current idle labor force. It can also detect the current industrial policy and the real employment situation in a timely manner. One of the principles of the State's economic policy is to stabilize employment. Some people may say that the employment situation can be reflected by counting the number of people who are unemployed in the labor force and who have paid social security, but I think this is inaccurate.
In China, especially in some state-owned enterprises, many grassroots workers are paying social security even when they are not employed, which is commonly referred to as empty salary. There are also some Chinese people have their own industrial and commercial enterprises, and some of the shareholders of industrial and commercial enterprises use the rights of the superstructure to turn state-owned resources into private ones and earn huge profits.
Finally, through the analysis of the salary proportion and number of flexible employees, some young people should be reasonably placed as far as possible to avoid the waste and consumption of surplus labor. As we all know, many of the people who are engaged in online ride-hailing and riders have high academic qualifications, including many graduate students in science and engineering. The barriers to becoming riders and ride-hailing drivers are low, the salaries are not high, and in the current economic instability, even if you increase the labor market, you will not be able to earn more. After all, these highly educated people are eager to work in jobs with technical content.
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