Ye Xingyu

School of Finance and Public Administration, Anhui University of Finance and Economics

Abstract：

As an important innovation in fiscal expenditure methods, government purchase of services plays an increasingly vital role in stabilizing employment and ensuring people's livelihoods. This paper systematically analyzes the internal mechanism by which government purchase of services promotes employment from two dimensions: theoretical logic and practical paths. The study finds that government purchase of services promotes employment through multiple channels, including directly creating job positions, stimulating the vitality of market entities, optimizing the allocation of labor resources, and improving the quality of employment. Currently, government purchase of services faces multiple challenges in promoting employment, such as scale expansion versus structural optimization, short-term effects versus long-term mechanisms, and fair competition versus standardized operations. To further leverage the employment-promoting function of government purchase of services, it is advisable to moderately expand the purchase scale, optimize the purchase structure, improve institutional design, strengthen performance management, and establish an employment promotion pattern with coordinated efforts from the government, market, and society.

Key Words：

government purchase of services; employment promotion; fiscal policy; public services