Study On The Relationship Between Employment And Economic Growth In Xinjiang

Since the reform and opening up, Xinjiang has realized rapid economic growthwith national economic growth. However, high economic growth does not drive thehigh job growth, the high economic growth does not improve the unemployment ratesignificantly."The high economic growth and low employment growth" phenomenonhas become the landscape of economic and social, which restricts the quality ofeconomic development in Xinjiang and the subsequent development of economy. Inthis paper, on the basis of the experience statistics of Xinjiang, combining bothnormative analysis and empirical analysis, examines the inconsistency betweenemployment growth and economic growth in Xinjiang,and find out the reasons, andbring up relevant policy Suggestions.This paper concluded that different economic development models come todifferently on promoting employment, labor intensive economy has strong ability toabsorb employment, while capital intensive pattern absorbing employment ability isweak. The development model which rely on state-owned capital intensive investmentto make Xinjiang’s rapid economic growth,at the same time distort the economicstructure and employment structure, and restrict the capacity of employmentabsorption of economic growth seriously. And one way out of "high growth and lowemployment" dilemma is: the transformation of the mode of economic development,adjust the industrial structure of economic, increase the proportion of non-publiceconomy, push forward reform and promote the marketization process, vigorouslydevelop small and medium-sized private economy which can absorb more laboremployment, in order to improve the overall level of employment. At the same time,industrial policy, economic development strategy should take into account theemployment goals. Needs to establish an effective transmission mechanism betweenjob growth and economic growth, as to maintain the benign interaction between theboth.