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Arid Land Geography ›› 2026, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (7): 1520-1529.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2025.463

• Regional Development • Previous Articles    

Regional differences, dynamic evolution, and influencing factors of employment quality in China

HE Jiaxin1(), LI Haiyang2()   

  1. 1 School of Statistics and Data Science, Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, Lanzhou 730020, Gansu, China
    2 School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2025-08-05 Revised:2025-09-10 Online:2026-07-25 Published:2026-07-07
  • Contact: LI Haiyang E-mail:hejiaxin991020@163.com;lihaiyang1106@163.com

Abstract:

Enhancing employment quality is a crucial pathway to achieving high-quality and full employment, which is vital to promoting economic development, maintaining social stability, and improving people’s livelihoods. Using panel data on 29 Chinese provinces from 2011 to 2023, this study constructs an employment quality evaluation index system characterized by “one core with two wings”. By employing methods such as the Dagum Gini coefficient, Markov chain, spatial convergence model, econometric regression models, and geographical detector, this study systematically examines the sources of disparities, dynamic evolution, spatial characteristics, and influencing factors of employment quality in China. The results reveal that (1) China’s employment quality demonstrates an overall steady upward trend, with inter-regional disparities constituting the principal source of the overall variation in employment quality levels. Spatially, it exhibits a gradually increasing gradient from the northwest to the southeast, accompanied by significant spatial agglomeration. (2) As the duration of transition periods extends, employment quality displays a tendency to shift toward adjacent levels, exhibiting characteristics of spatial convergence. (3) The improvement of employment quality exhibits a self-reinforcing cumulative effect. Factors such as transportation accessibility, industrialization level, and the degree of government intervention have relatively large coefficients, indicating their pronounced role in promoting employment quality. (4) The enhancement of employment quality depends on the synergistic effects of multiple factors, among which transportation accessibility and population density are identified as the core driving forces. The conclusions of this study can offer valuable insights for formulating differentiated and targeted policies for elevating employment quality.

Key words: employment quality, egional disparity, dynamic evolution, influencing factors