Causes of Youth Unemployment and Coping Strategies in China

This paper builds an analytical framework of “structural contradiction-cyclical fluctuation-institutional friction”, and systematically analyzes the mul-ti-dimensional causes of youth unemployment in China: industrial upgrad-ing leads to the coexistence of skill premium and crowding-out effect of low-skilled groups, faults on the supply side of education aggravate the mis-match of human capital, the downward transmission of macro-economy stalls the creation of jobs, and the imbalance of inter-generational preference for job selection and distorted market signals form the double superimposed effect. The study pro-poses systematic solutions of policy synergy, industry-education in-tegration, regional coordination and conceptual reshaping, providing theoreti-cal support and practical paths for cracking the youth unemployment dilemma.