CIER concentrates on the status and the trend of the employment, the theories of employment and unemployment and labor market policies. It focuses on the employment issues in China and other countries in order to learn from them. The research area includes the status and trend of employment at home and abroad, the economics of employment and unemployment, micro organizational behavior and employment effect, macro economic policies and the demand of workforce in industry, investment in human resource capital, employment options, the transformation of the Chinese employment policies and international employment policies and so on.