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dc.contributor.authorSong, Linaen_US
dc.contributor.authorAppleton, Simonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-22en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:33:25Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:33:25Z-
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-2008072338en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35085-
dc.description.abstractJob-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State sector. The official explanation is that rural-urban migrants are allocated access to farm land in their rural origins, and hence their welfare rights and security are covered by this entitlement to the use of land. In this paper, we look at whether migrants still benefited from these opportunities. Second, we investigate whether it is the poor, the unentitled and the vulnerable that are excluded from public protection programs. Chinese official social protection programs are, like in most western countries, officially designated as being for poverty alleviation. However would such programs still be targeted in ways that limit their coverage, curtail the range of basic needs provided for and allocate benefits very unequally? Thirdly, we explore whether households with favourable productive characteristics are more likely to get into social protection programs. Here, the ongoing debate concerning equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes has some relevance. Finally, we examine the roles social networks or Guanxi (the Chinese term for social connections) may play in dealing with economic shocks.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherIZA Bonnen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIZA Discussion Papers 3594en_US
dc.subject.jelH41en_US
dc.subject.ddc330en_US
dc.subject.keywordMigrationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsocial protectionen_US
dc.subject.keywordentitlementen_US
dc.subject.keywordChinaen_US
dc.subject.stwSoziale Sicherungen_US
dc.subject.stwLandfluchten_US
dc.subject.stwStadtbevölkerungen_US
dc.subject.stwSozialrechten_US
dc.subject.stwChinaen_US
dc.titleSocial protection and migration in China: what can protect migrants from economic uncertainty?en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
dc.identifier.ppn573772959en_US
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen-
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