Liquidation of labour markets and adult education in China

Abstract

Along with a rapid economic development, the labour market in China is increasingly liquidizing, causing job changes or turnovers to become a normal state. This social phenomenon was triggered partly by the introduction of free labour market of school graduates after the abolition of the job-assignment system for higher education graduates in 1992, which was the last vestige of the socialist system of the Chinese government. The job-assignment system was a labour force management measure, where graduates of secondary education or higher were distributed systematically to production sectors in society based on the forecasts of human resources demand in a planned economy.