China’s youth unemployment nearly 20 percent
China’s youth unemployment nearly 20 percent
- August 24, 2022
- Dorothy Solinger, poli sci, Voice of America, Aug. 24, 2022
The market may be even more discouraging to recent graduates and other jobseekers than the official figures suggest, said Dorothy Solinger, a professor emerita at the University of California, Irvine, who studies unemployment in China. China’s “unemployment statistics are notoriously wrong,” Solinger told VOA Mandarin. “I’m surprised they’re announcing that it’s this high now, but it makes me think it may be even higher.”
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