Chinese employers' hiring intentions will weaken in the second half of 2013 but the employment rate is not a problem yet in China, human resources agencies said.
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"China's net employment outlook slipped to its weakest level since the first quarter of 2010 after employer hiring plans fell in all industry sectors and all regions," Manpower Group, a global workforce provider, said in its employment outlook survey for the third quarter of 2013.
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The firm uses its net employment outlook to describe employers' hiring intentions.
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The Chinese mainland's net employment outlook is 12 percent in the third quarter of 2013, declining by 5 percentage points compared with the same period of 2012, Manpower said in its report.
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Statistics from the survey show that 14 percent of the employers expect to increase payrolls in the third quarter, 2 percent anticipate a decrease and 45 percent forecast no change.
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Zhaopin.com, one of China's largest providers of human resource services, said recruitment growth in the first half of 2013 was 20 percent, falling by 6 percentage points compared with 2012.
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The job supply is related to the country's gross domestic product growth so as China's GDP growth slows down, so does employment, experts said.
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Some institutions have different opinions on China's GDP growth in the second half of the year. Nomura Securities - the most pessimistic, forecast as much as a 30 percent possibility that China's GDP growth will fall below 7 percent in the second half of the year.
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However, China's employment market is still steady because the workforce supply is declining alongside falling demand.
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"China's employment market will be steady in the short term because China's working-age population is also reducing," said Du Yang, a professor with the institute of population and labor economics at China Academy of Social Sciences.