The Characteristics of New Employment Forms and Its Quality
Based on the data of the 2018 China Household Income Survey,this paper presents the characteris-tics and scale of new employment forms in a panoramic way.It is found that in the early stage of the rapid development of new employment forms,workers are mainly engaged in delivery/takeout,opening online shops and driving online cars,etc.Among the new employment forms,men are significantly more than women,and the age of workers is concentrated between 29 and 39 years old,and more people have low education.Accord-ing to the labor supply level of the new employment forms,most of the new employment form workers work 7.29~10.71 hours a day,but a considerable proportion of them work only 0.45~3.87 hours.More workers in new employment forms work more than 191 days a year.Women,young people under the age of 35,and people with a high school education or above have a low level of labor supply for new employment forms.The income,labor intensity,protection of labor rights and interests and subjective well-being of workers are differ-ent,and the influencing factors include age,health status,economic regions,employment types and labor contract signings,etc.The employment quality of new employment forms has a large room for improvement.
new employment formsdigital economyemployment qualitylabor supply levelprotection of labor rights and interests