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Hukou and Health Insurance Coverage for Migrant Workers
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Abstract Most migrant workers in mainland China are officially covered by the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS), a rural health insurance system that operates in their home communities. The NRCMS and the system of household registration (户口, hukou) are tightly linked and systemically interdependen... mehr
Most migrant workers in mainland China are officially covered by the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS), a rural health insurance system that operates in their home communities. The NRCMS and the system of household registration (户口, hukou) are tightly linked and systemically interdependent institutions. Migrant workers have difficulties benefitting from this social protection because it remains spatially separated from them. Only a minority have access to urban health insurance systems. This paper sheds light on the institutional origins of the coverage problem of migrant workers and examines crucial policy initiatives that attempt to solve it. In the context of the ongoing hukou reforms, these policies aim to partially dissolve the systemic interdependence of hukou and health insurance. While the policies provide feasible, yet conflict-prone, solutions in short-distance and concentrated bilateral migration systems, covering migrants who cross provincial boundaries remains a challenge.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
institutionelle Faktoren; ländlicher Raum; Wanderarbeitnehmer; soziale Sicherung; Landbevölkerung; Krankenversicherung; China; Regionalpolitik; öffentliches Gesundheitswesen; Meldewesen
Klassifikation
soziale Sicherung
Freie Schlagwörter
China; health insurance; migrant workers; New Rural Cooperative Medical System; NRCMS; hukou
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 53-82
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 45 (2016) 2
Heftthema
Marginalisation and State Intervention in China
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Keine Bearbeitung 3.0