The Introduction of Pension, Accident, and Health Insurance in Urban China
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AbstractSince the initiation of reform and opening policies, social protection for urban workers in China has transformed massively. Before the 1980s, state-owned enterprises were responsible for protecting workers from social risks such as old age, accidents, and illness. Today, these three areas are organised as contribution-based social insurance systems with Chinese characteristics. This chapter identifies the causal mechanisms that led to the introduction of insurance schemes in the 1990s and early 2000s. We find three causal mechanisms: (neutral and strategic) policy experimentation, top-leader intervention, and (consensus-based and enforced) elite cooperation. Moreover, we demonstrate that the presence or absence of complementarity between the international environment and the domestic actor constellation had a decisive effect on how those mechanisms played out.
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Tobias ten Brink
Armin Müller
Tao Liu
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