Analysis on the Employment Elasticity Change Factors Based on Linear Regression Methodology

In recent years, the economy grows rapidly in Jilin province, and people’s life improves steadily, but at the same time, people has to face a sever employment situation. The changes on trend and characteristics of employment elasticity become flexible and fuzzy to predict with the development of society. By using linear regression methodology, employment situation of Jilin province is analyzed by taking primary industry employment elasticity, secondary industry employment elasticity, and tertiary industry employment elasticity into account. The calculation results show that three strata of industry employment elasticity has an increasing trend, and the total elasticity of employment is mainly driven by the second and tertiary industries.