Labor Mismatch in China

Bill Dodson writes on his This is China! blog:

A local Suzhou television news reported highlighted an odd disconnect in the local labor market: local factories are looking to hire, and the unemployed are looking for jobs. The report, in many ways, was more an infomercial for the company, its products, its working conditions and its labor requirements, which is likely how the issue became a news items at all. The news reported went to some labor markets and talked to young people who were looking for jobs. The interviewees were unaware there was a labor shortage. Perhaps these were the unemployable.

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