Research on Impacts of Higher Education on the Employment Growth in Shandong Province

In the context of China's New Normal, the economy of Shandong Province is facing severe challenge, and the employment situation are also deeply affected. In this paper, we make an empirical research on the factor of higher education, which influences labor employment growth of Shandong Province. The study shows that: the growth of higher education enrollment is positively related to the number of employment. It will create 10.1 thousand job positions when higher education enrollment growth rate increases every 1 percent. Based on the above result, this paper proposes to promote the establishment of new higher education system to boost employment and entrepreneurship, and also create a large well-known vocational education group in order to advance the employment growth in Shandong Province.