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Social security for China's migrant workers
Author(s) -
WANG Zhikai
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2011.00111.x
Subject(s) - social security , china , government (linguistics) , private sector , constraint (computer aided design) , enforcement , economics , labour economics , migrant workers , informal sector , law enforcement , social capital , labour law , social protection , sustainability , economic growth , business , market economy , political science , law , mechanical engineering , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , biology
. China's lack of social and labour policy coherence is an increasingly serious problem which threatens to undermine labour–capital relations and, ultimately, the sustainability of the country's market transition. A particular constraint on the further development of the private sector is the absence of integrated social protection for rural migrants. These workers account for a large share of the private‐sector labour force, yet many of them do not enjoy the same social security rights as urban residents. The Government has started to address this issue through tighter law enforcement but, the author argues, the solution may call for some institutional reform.