Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/120994 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9343
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China Household Ethnicity Survey, are ideal for examining the effect of cultural differences on this key lifecycle event, the reduction of market-oriented work with age. Membership in particular ethnic minority groups is used to proxy the potential differences in the culture of aging and caregiving. We find that beyond education, the strongest predictors of labor force participation for China's rural elders are age, disability, widowhood, and ethnic minority status. The effects of ethnic minority group status on labor force participation are robust and the differences in participation among ethnic groups are sometimes large. It is thus misleading, in the analysis of the labor force participation of China's rural elders, to simply dichotomize ethnic minority and majority (Han) group membership. Further careful research is needed to help understand the differences in perceptions of aging among China's rural ethnic minority groups.
Subjects: 
ethnicity
retirement
labor force participation
elders
aging
China Household Ethnicity Survey
JEL: 
J14
J15
J16
J26
D13
O53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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