Unlocking Opportunities for Migrant Workers in China: Analyzing the Impact of Health Insurance on Hukou Switching Intentions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/8/6998" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/8/6998</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15086998" target="_blank" >10.3390/su15086998</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unlocking Opportunities for Migrant Workers in China: Analyzing the Impact of Health Insurance on Hukou Switching Intentions

Original language description

The Chinese urban-rural binary health insurance structure has contributed to a significant urban-rural segmentation and regional fragmentation, which will affect labor mobilization and urbanization. The purpose of this research is to study whether and how urban-rural binary health insurance impacts the intentions of migrant workers to switch between rural and urban hukou. Pooled data were drawn from China Migrants Dynamic Survey, collected by the National Health Commission of China. The study applied the instrument variable model due to the existence of the endogeneity; and the IVprobit model to conduct the empirical analysis. Our findings are as follows: (1) the urban-rural binary health insurance affects migrant workers&apos; intentions to switch to urban hukou significantly. (2) The negative impact of originally rural health insurance on migrant workers&apos; intention of switching to urban hukou is relatively large for low-education-level migrant workers. (3) Compared with new generation of migrant workers, old migrant workers have higher health insurance dependency levels. Finally, our research suggested several policy implications, such as accelerating the establishment of a unified urban-rural health insurance system, increasing the urban health insurance participation rate of migrant workers in their working cities, and including migrant workers in the scope of equal access to urban public services, etc. All the policy suggestions are essential in order to accelerate the citizenization of migrant workers, improve the quality of urbanization, and promote the construction of a unified national labor market.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

2071-1050

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

6998

UT code for WoS article

000979425900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85156185019