%0 Journal Article
%T Social insurance participation among rural migrants in reform era China
%A Hong Xiao
%A Yuling Wu
%J Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0117196818808412
%X This study examines the effects of stability in employment and migration on rural migrants¡¯ access to social insurance. Special attention is given to the interaction between the employment contract and the employment sector and between the employment contract and the migrants¡¯ local¨Cnonlocal rural hukou status. Using data from the 2009 Rural-Urban Migration survey in China, the analysis reveals that having a stable contract and high job stability are positively correlated with social insurance coverage among rural migrants, whereas a stable migration experience and the intention to settle in the host city do not increase the likelihood of having social insurance coverage. Having a stable contract plays an important role in closing and even reversing the coverage gap between local and non-local rural migrants by significantly boosting the latter¡¯s chances of obtaining social insurance. However, the beneficial effects derived from having a stable contract in improving the likelihood of obtaining social insurance have been significant in the state sector but quite limited in the non-state sector. Astonishingly, this has unintendedly increased the coverage disparity between the two employment sectors, except for the housing provident fund. The policy implications of these findings are discussed
%K rural migrants
%K social insurance schemes
%K employment and migration stability
%K rural hukou status
%K employment sector
%K China
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0117196818808412