On the impact of government employment services on the quality of re-employment of unemployed fishermen in Yangtze River –A case study in Xiantao City of Hubei Province, China

Abstract

In the transition period of the Yangtze River fishing ban policy, the retrenched fishermen are in an inferior position in the employment market due to the lack of their own employment capital, and it has become a problem to switch to employment. Based on the study of employment quality and employment capital theory, this paper uses the PLS-SEM model to process the questionnaire data on the effect of government employment services on the quality of fishermen’s re-employment based on the establishment of government employment services-quality analysis system and questionnaire design and collection. The total effect of government employment services on re-employment quality was 0.685. The indirect effect of government employment services on the quality of re-employment through the mediating variable of employment conditions was smaller than the direct effect of government employment services on the quality of employment. This research may provide a basis for solving the problems of high-quality re-employment for unemployed fishermen and sustainable livelihoods for fishermen. © 2024, Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Author Keywords

Employment Capital Employment Services Transition to Employment Unemployed Fishermen

Index Keywords

Employment sustainability China government livelihood questionnaire survey Service Quality fishery Hubei Yangtze River

Author Affiliations

College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

School of Economics and Management, Tongji Zhejiang College, Shanghai, Zhejiang, China

Key Laboratory of Healthy Freshwater Aquaculture, Zhejiang Institute of Freshwater Fisheries, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China

Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

Key Laboratory of Healthy Freshwater Aquaculture, Zhejiang Institute of Freshwater Fisheries, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China, Research Center of Fisheries Development Strategy, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Funding & Acknowledgements

Grant: ZJK202206

This research was funded by the Open Project Foundation from Key Laboratory of Freshwater Aquaculture Genetic and Breeding of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Institute of Freshwater Fisheries (ZJK202206); and Science and Research Start-up Funding project for High-level and scarce talent from Shanghai Technical institute of electrics and information: Research on Artificial Intelligence Reshaping the Digital Economy Skills of Fintech Industry Cluster in Shanghai: A Knowledge Graph-based View Valve (GCC2023015).

Grant: GCC2023015

This research was funded by the Open Project Foundation from Key Laboratory of Freshwater Aquaculture Genetic and Breeding of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Institute of Freshwater Fisheries (ZJK202206); and Science and Research Start-up Funding project for High-level and scarce talent from Shanghai Technical institute of electrics and information: Research on Artificial Intelligence Reshaping the Digital Economy Skills of Fintech Industry Cluster in Shanghai: A Knowledge Graph-based View Valve (GCC2023015).

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On the impact of government employment services on the quality of re-employment of unemployed fishermen in Yangtze River –A case study in Xiantao City of Hubei Province, China

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