How does the Economic Daily respond to the water injection of employment data in the first half of the year?

As for the water injection of employment data in the first half of the year, the Economic Daily responded: It does not exist. From the perspective of core indicators, data show that the urban surveyed unemployment rate in each month of the second quarter was 6%, 5.9%, and 5.7% respectively, showing a gradual downward trend, with the unemployment rate in June falling by 0.5 percentage points from the peak in February. According to data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, more than 1 million new jobs were created in a single month in the second quarter.

Recently, the "China Employment Market Sentiment Report" released by the China Employment Research Institute of Renmin University of China and Zhaopin Recruitment also showed that the job market sentiment index rebounded month by month in the second quarter.

Therefore, the statistical data are real and objective, and there is no such thing as "water injection". However, it is also true that the number of new urban jobs nationwide in the first half of the year was 1.73 million less than the same period last year. Therefore, the total employment pressure is greater, especially the employment experience of different groups will be different.

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Detailed analysis:

1. Let’s look at the employment group first.

Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, offline campus recruitment for college students has been converted to online job interviews, and their job search time has been postponed accordingly. Some units have also delayed the recruitment examination time, which has brought difficulties to the employment of college students. There are many restrictions, and the unemployment rate among college students has reached a new high for the same period.

At the end of the second quarter, the number of rural migrant workers decreased by 4.96 million year-on-year, a decrease of 2.7%, reflecting that the employment of migrant workers was greatly affected by the epidemic. This shows that although the employment situation is changing positively, the employment pressure of key groups is still relatively high.

2. Let’s look at the employment industry.

Practitioners in different industries have different feelings. As the anchors who bring goods become "Internet marketers", and the delivery boys turn into "online deliverymen"... Many new industries, new business formats, and new models were spawned during the epidemic, which provided important support for the recovery of employment and also brought about new and diverse employment opportunities. Relevant reports show that new occupations have become one of the new reservoirs of employment.

For example, a survey shows that under the live broadcast economy, the demand for talents in the live broadcast industry has surged against the trend, resulting in significant new employment effects. According to incomplete statistics, dozens of new positions may be created around an anchor. In contrast, it will take some time for the production and operations of some traditional industries and individual industrial and commercial households to recover from the impact of the epidemic.

Therefore, to solve the employment problem, we must not only strengthen the government's responsibilities and optimize the employment and entrepreneurship environment, but also rely on workers' own efforts to master the ability to "create jobs."

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