Glamor Economics

Chapter 51

Chapter 7, Section 5 White-collar workers are laid off, and babysitters are sky-high - labor supply
In our traditional understanding, a person's salary is directly proportional to a person's educational background, but today, white-collar jobs are not safe, and the salary of a nanny is not synonymous with low wages.In fact, this is explained by the principles of economics, which is not surprising at all.Let's look at the example of Mr. Wu first.

Adding a baby is a great joy in life, but for Mr. Wu, a citizen of Dalian, it has become a great difficulty, because his wife is about to give birth, but he still has not found a confinement wife after half a year of searching.

"My wife's due date is early July, but now I have asked relatives and friends to find a confinement wife, but there has been no news." Mr. Wu said helplessly.He consulted no less than ten housekeeping companies, and they all told him to wait. This wait lasted for more than half a year. Seeing that his wife was about to give birth, none of the housekeeping companies had replied to him.

In desperation, Mr. Wu had no choice but to personally go to the housekeeping company to "rob the confinement wife". "I went to a total of seven housekeeping companies, and they all told me to register first, and then go home and wait for an answer." Mr. Wu said that he went to every housekeeping company and explained to them that his wife was about to give birth and the wait would not be too long. , if someone is willing, he can hire him at a high price.But what he didn't expect was that the staff of these domestic service companies told him that there are many people who are more anxious than him, and now the confinement lady must be booked two or three months in advance.

A housekeeping company also showed him the registration form, and he found that there were already more than 10 registered confinement maids.

It is understood that due to the large number of people booking Yuesao, their income has also risen accordingly.During a certain period of time, the salary of a junior confinement lady in Dalian ranged from 1200 to 1700 yuan, that of an intermediate confinement lady was 2100 to 2300 yuan, that of a senior confinement lady was 2300 to 2500 yuan, and that of a super confinement lady was as high as 2600 to 3000 yuan.

As the wages of nannies rise, nannies have also become a career choice for college students. "From August to December 2008, an average of 8 people applied for jobs a month, and more than 12% of them were college students, and 600 had master's degrees." Said the deputy general manager of a housekeeping company in Guangzhou.Chuanmeizi Home Economics Company’s Capital University Student Home Economics Business Department enrolled 90 students in the summer vacation of 28 to participate in the advanced domestic assistant training class for college students, and the number of students has increased by seven or eight times compared with previous years.Most of these students are from famous universities in Beijing, and they are all students. Among them, there are many postgraduates with high quality and high English proficiency.

Xiao Zhang, a postgraduate student, said: "I have been doing housework since I was a child, and I love children very much. I used to be an English teacher. When I was a nanny for college students during the holidays, I wanted to get in touch with the society and exercise my ability to communicate with people. In the future, these interpersonal relationships Might help in finding a job."

It is precisely because of changes in labor supply that the phenomenon of "white-collar workers laid off and nannies paid sky-high" has occurred.On the one hand, the increase in labor supply has exceeded the labor demand brought about by economic growth, resulting in total unemployment, resulting in white-collar layoffs and difficulty in finding jobs for college students.On the other hand, in the process of economic system reform and industrial restructuring, due to the unsuitable quality and skills of the labor force, a large number of job vacancies have appeared, and many enterprises and regions have shortages of skilled labor and nannies.

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Labor supply refers to the human resources available to enterprises in the labor market.The supply of labor mainly includes fresh graduates, demobilized soldiers, unemployed persons, and in-service colleagues.

Internal supply and external supply In an enterprise, the supply of enterprise personnel includes internal supply and external supply. The future internal human resource supply of an enterprise is generally the main part of the enterprise's human resource supply (except for newly established enterprises).To meet the human resource needs of an enterprise, the supply of internal human resources should be given priority, and the supply of internal human resources needs to consider the following factors: the natural loss of internal personnel (disability, retirement, death, etc.), internal mobility (promotion, demotion, transfer, etc.), job hopping (resignation, dismissal), etc.However, the vacancies of corporate positions and posts cannot be completely resolved through internal supply. It is an irresistible law that corporate personnel quit their jobs due to various subjective and natural reasons. This will inevitably require companies to continuously replenish personnel from the outside, thus creating an external labor supply.

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