Analysis on the Impact of Family Capital on Individual Employment Choices in China

Abstract

In 2023, over 11.58 million college students graduated in China, and structural unemployment caused by the deviation of job seekers employment expectations from actual positions today has become a major employment problem. Promoting college students to start at the grassroots level for their employment can not only reduce the employment pressure but also alleviate the talent shortage problem at the grassroots level. Most of the existing studies are problem-oriented studies, and few of them incorporate the perspective of the family capital field. Therefore, this study summarizes the relationship between family capital ownership and participation in grassroots employment by combining the studies on family capital and grassroots employment. It is found that college students with a large amount of family capital are more reluctant to find grassroots employment. From the perspective of family capital, this paper analyzes the reasons why some college students are reluctant to find grassroots employment and puts forward some suggestions to help improve the motivation and ability of college students in grassroots employment.