Expanding Social Insurance Coverage in Urban China
This paper first reviews the history of social insurance policy and coverage in urban China, documenting the evolution in the coverage of pensions and medical and unemployment insurance for both local residents and migrants, and highlighting obstac...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17912284/expanding-social-insurance-coverage-urban-china http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15855 |
| Summary: | This paper first reviews the history of
social insurance policy and coverage in urban China,
documenting the evolution in the coverage of pensions and
medical and unemployment insurance for both local residents
and migrants, and highlighting obstacles to expanding
coverage. The paper then uses two waves of the China Urban
Labor Survey, conducted in 2005 and 2010, to examine the
correlates of social insurance participation before and
after implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law. A
higher labor tax wedge is associated with a lower
probability that local employed residents participate in
social insurance programs, but is not associated with
participation of wage-earning migrants, who are more likely
to be dissuaded by fragmentation of the social insurance
system. The existing gender gap in social insurance coverage
is explained by differences in coverage across industrial
sectors and firm ownership classes in which men and women work. |
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