Modern Economics & Management Forum

Full employment is usually regarded as a barometer of a country's or region's economic and social development, together with economic growth, price stability and balance of payments, and it is one of the four indicators used to monitor the country's macroeconomic performance and carry out macroeconomic control. However, the advent of the post-pandemic era has had an indelible impact on economic and social development, and in the area of social employment, unemployment is a common problem faced by all countries in the world today. Unemployment not only makes it difficult to improve one's quality of life, but also threatens family and social stability, aggravates social conflicts, and has a negative impact on economic development. Nowadays, with the advent of the longevity era, age discrimination in the labor market should be eliminated to support the re-employment needs of the elderly who are willing to work. This paper takes the group of middle-aged and old-aged migrant workers, a common group of unemployed people in the society, as the research object, clarifies the sense of the problem, starts from the relevant theories of unemployment, explores the causes and effects of unemployment, and on the basis of this, examines how to manage unemployment, and further discusses the problem of unemployment in China.