• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    The unemployment rate for urban youth has been climbing for several months. This is due to factors including a mismatch between what graduates were trained to do and the jobs currently available.

    Sounds like Chinese graduates are having the same issues as a lot of Western graduates.

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      1 year ago

      Similar issues, but rates are different. ~7% vs ~20% youth unemployment rates are very different stories. Right now my corner of the country is practically begging for workers, we simply doesn’t have the warm bodies post-covid to fill the open positions. Anyone with a pulse, 18-80, is welcome to work for a decent wage, degree or no, and still 7% of the youngins are not employed.

      I’m not an economist, but to me 7% unemployment is bad, 20% is a crisis waiting to happen.

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        Yet the unemployment rate was much higher during the last recession, we hit somewhere around 25% overall unemployment rate until they stopped counting workers who simply left the workforce.

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      At least they won’t be suffering under the burden of being both unemployed and in tuition debt. It baffles me that Western universities still demand so much money for what has become a basic employment requirement, and even worse that lots of them are more expensive to foreigners.

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        Anglo universities, not “Western” universities. Also, mostly the US as other Anglo places have sane state programmes to fund tuition, e.g. in the UK you only have to pay instalments if you’re actually earning money. Systemically such a system is much closer to the e.g. German “all you pay is some administrative fees we’ll get our money back from income taxes” type of funding.

        Not at all all countries do the “everyone should go to college” thing, either.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        I don’t know. You are starting to see where education level is no longer providing the premium that it used to in the labor economy. So, you have hazardous jobs with a labor rate assuming anyone can do the job and professional jobs where it was assumed that this isn’t the case. It turns out that those hazardous jobs need an increase in pay to attract workers, but part of the reason everything is built in China is because of lower than average labor costs.

        If you are a new graduate, you may want to wait for a job in your field rather than take a 996 job at a factory.