Abstract:

The youth are a big part of the floating population and they have their own characteristics.However, this fact has been ignored in previous studies due to the absence of contrastive methods.Based upon the data from the spot check of floating population at Minhang District in Shanghai, and by means of the contrastive methods, the present study summarizes four employment characteristics of young floating population in terms of occupation structure, the way they found their current job, working time and salary, frequency of job changing and the main reasons.Several problems of the employment of the young floating population pop up in this study, for example, poor education, employment and social segregations which are closely related, inadequate employment supporting system from city governments, etc.Last but not the least, some measures are put forward in order to solve these problems, namely, the development of vocational education, fostering cross-provincial labor market, the improvement of laws and institutions, and promoting the social integration of the young floating population.

Key words: floating population, the youth, employment characteristics, Shanghai