Background Under the background of current urbanization and demographic changes, studying the practical significance of the relationship between healthy capital and employment quality of floating populations is conducive to promoting the high-quality development of the population and achieving harmonious stability and sustainable development of society.
Methods We use the National Dynamic Data of Migrant Population (CDMS) in 2017 to calculate the healthy capital of the floating population, and systematically analyze the employment effect of healthy capital on the floating population. Self-assessment of health and physical health is set as the health capital of the floating population. The quality of employment is measured by job incom，job intensity，job stability，job security, and the impact of the health capital of the floating population on the quality of employment is tested through the ols model.
Results It is found that the improvement of the employment quality of the floating population is closely related to the improvement of the health capital; the health capital of the floating population plays a significant role in promoting the quality of their employment. Specifically, self-rated health capital has a significant positive impact on the job income and job stability of the floating population, but has a negative impact on job intensity. However, the relationship between health capital and employment security is not significant. This result is consistent with the robustness test results.
Conclusions The results show that health capital can have a positive impact on the employment quality of the floating population, but there are certain differences in the impact on different dimensions of employment quality. Based on this, in the future urbanization development, we should pay attention to the health level of the floating population, promote population health capital, further improve the employment structure of the labor market, improve the efficiency of labor resource allocation, and then promote social and economic vitality and promote the healthy and stable development of the economy and society in the context of the gradual reduction of the Demographic dividend.