Can High-quality Social Development Ease Unemployment Anxiety Among Young Workers?Evidence from China Social Survey
Promoting high-quality youth employment is key to promoting high-quality economic and social development.Existing studies have mainly focused on the objective level of youth unemployment,but less on the subjective level of unemployment anxiety.The article examines the trend of young workers'unemployment anxiety using data from the China Social Survey(CSS),and then explores the mechanisms for managing unemployment anxiety from the social quality perspective.The findings of the study are as follows:(1)young workers'unemployment anxiety increased rapidly after the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic;(2)high-quality society can alleviate unemployment anxiety by lowering the stress of life of young workers;(3)high-quality society has a stronger inhibitory effect on the unemployment anxiety among young workers who are less able to withstand external risks.It is recommended that high-quality social development be promoted and that government governance at the grass-roots level be made effective in order to enhance the ability of young workers to cope with the risks of unemployment and to alleviate their anxiety about unemployment.