Dilemma and Resolution: A Study on the "Involution" Phenomenon in College Students' Employment

Xu Lihong()

Abstract

In recent years, the "involution" effect in college students' employment has spilled over, presenting dilemmas such as continuous self-replication within the employment system, diminishing marginal benefits of employment, and the interweaving of active and passive "delayed employment". The prominent structural contradiction of supply-demand imbalance at the macro level, the evolution of employment concepts driven by the transformation of major social contradictions at the meso level, and the intensified employment competition due to scarce resource endowments at the micro level are the main reasons for the "involution" trend in college students' employment. The high-quality development of the economy and society, the effective breakthrough of the rigid external boundaries of the employment management system by the government and universities, and college students' positive and rational choices in the face of employment competition will all be effective paths to resolve employment "involution".

Keywords

Automation, Wage Inequality, Labor Supply Dynamics, Buffer Effect, Task-Based Model, Vector Error Correction Model (VECM)

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/jetm.v10i1.36415