US EditionChinese Adults Working as ‘Full-Time Children’ for Their Parents in Tight Labor Market
- "Full-Time children" is a new trend in China where adults get paid by their parents to spend time with them and help around the house.
- The rise of this trend is driven by high youth unemployment rates in China, with the youth unemployment rate reaching a record high of 21.3% in June.
- While some see it as a blessing, others view it as a temporary phase and worry that it reflects a larger issue of less challenging job opportunities and a decline in overall social consumption.
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Youth unemployment and crazy productivity rates push young Chinese people to fall back on “pocket money”: they live with their parents, act as domestic workers, drivers, cooks, and earn (almost) normal salaries
Young Chinese are getting paid to be ‘full-time children’ as jobs become harder to find
By Laura He and Candice Zhu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Exhausted by the pressure to succeed as a photographer, Litsky Li accepted a better offer: quit work to become one of China’s growing legions of children paid by their families to stay home. Li, 21, now spends her days grocery shopping for her family
Young Chinese are getting paid to be ‘full-time children’ as jobs become harder to find
By Laura He and Candice Zhu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Exhausted by the pressure to succeed as a photographer, Litsky Li accepted a better offer: quit work to become one of China’s growing legions of children paid by their families to stay home. Li, 21, now spends her days grocery shopping for her family in the central city of Luoyang and caring for her grandmother, who has dementia. Her parents pay her a salary of 6,000 yuan ($835) a month, which i…
Young Chinese are getting paid to be 'full-time children' as jobs become harder to find
Exhausted by the pressure to succeed as a photographer, Litsky Li accepted a better offer: quit work to become one of China’s growing legions of children paid by their families to stay home.
China has many ‘full-time children’. What does it say about its economy?
‘Full-time children’ are people in their 20s and 30s – burned out from working or unemployed – who spend their days caring for their parents in exchange for an allowance, rent, or a place to live. Some experts say this trend should alarm the establishment, while others call fears ‘overblown’
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