ABSTRACT
The objective of China's reform of its labour employment system is to build up a well-developed labour market and achieve an effective allocation of labour resources by means of market regulation. Labour market construction leads directly to free labour mobility, which is the key to ensuring the healthy and sustainable development of the labour market. Chinese researchers have produced vast amounts of literature on labour mobility, including occupational mobility, in urban China; on new migrants from rural areas to the cities; and on unemployed and laid-off workers. But most of applied studies focused only on a single dimension of labour mobility. The development of labour market construction so far is also borne out by the increase in the rate of return to education. After dividing the respondents into different age groups and making further comparison, sociologists found that the number of job changes of Chinese labourers was much less than that of their peer groups in Japan or America.
