The Effect Of Job Flexibility On Labor Market

Employment is vital to the livelihood of people.As a new employment situation in labor market, flexible employment provides an alternative to absorb labor force and ease the employment pressure. However,flexible employment market in China has been far from well-developed:the low proportion, the relatively simplex form, and the majority focus on the low-end market. Therefore,the research of flexible employment on labor market would provide an approach to develop employment market.From the microeconomic perspective and on the basis of workers’flexible preferences, this paper develop a Search and Matching Model on labor market, depicting matching behavior of both sides involved in the flexible labor market by parameter setting work. The study focus the on behavior characteristics of flexible labor,particularly demonstrates the effect of gender discrimination in the flexible market. Utilize a large cross section sample from CHFS, the empirical results shows: Firstly, the average income of flexible employment in our China is lower than the that of inflexible employment; Secondly,female workers in the labor market flexibility suffer most serious discrimination,thus,higher productivity of the female flexible employment in the labor market has been significantly undervalued. Finally, compared to the education return, experience and professional titles earn more returns to flexible employment.Aiming at solving above problems,an analysis which base on the experience of foreign country provides some enlightenment and revelations for China. According to our national situation,policy goal and the corresponding concrete measures of optimizing flexible employment situation has been proposed.