The reform of social welfare in China

Selden, Mark; You, Laiyin

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(97)00055-7

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“…Although transformations in tenure and ownership appeared to promote public welfare, the early communist housing system also critically embodied socialist state ambitions to nurture industrialization and working class formation (Selden and You 1997). Indeed, although the state claimed that it took responsibility to provide housing welfare, most of housing was combined with the employee programmes carried out by work units (danwei), 5 the financiers and providers of public housing.…”

Section: Before 1978: a Socialist System With Conservative Elementsmentioning

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Housing and Welfare Regimes: Examining the Changing Role of Public Housing in China

Zhou

Ronald

2016

Housing, Theory and Society

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Following decades of deep marketization, Chinese housing policy has recently revived public housing provision, stimulating debate over whether China is moving towards a more socialized approach to housing. While such a move represents a remarkable shift in the role of housing as a welfare good or service, little research has considered recent developments in housing from a welfare regime perspective. Indeed, while the salience of housing systems to welfare regimes has been widely recognized in comparative research, this link has rarely been explored in the case of China. This paper applies a welfare regime framework to the historical development of Chinese housing system, and specifically, to empirically examine recent transformations in the housing system through contrasting examples from two Chinese cities: Beijing and Chongqing. The analysis indicates the emergence of a hybrid housing system combining socialist, social-democratic and productivist elements, focused on the chimeric needs of urban populations that are balanced between indigenous city residents and urban migrants.

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Section: Before 1978: a Socialist System With Conservative Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing and Welfare Regimes: Examining the Changing Role of Public Housing in China

Zhou

Ronald

2016

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Regional and local officials tended to maximise control over welfare funds that could be invested so as to expand employment opportunities and create profitable investments that would enable them simultaneously to advance their careers and boost their own incomes (Selden and You, 1997). Thus, local officials were more willing to implement pension integration and choose the pension model that seemed the most appropriate for their region.…”

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“…But these pension funds need more efficient capital markets in which to invest, and China's banking system and the stock and bond markets are not mature enough to offer an efficient capital market for operating a fully funded pension system (The Economist, 2002). 14 Inefficient, costly, and sometimes corrupted management is perceived as another source of pressure on the pension system (Selden and You, 1997). 15 In managing pension funds, China could obtain better results since it has a much smaller pension debt and much greater financial capacity to finance this debt than most other 'transition countries' (World Bank 1997).…”

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A Long Financial March: Pension Reform in China

Béland

2004

J. Soc. Pol.

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In the context of rapid economic and demographic change, the People's Republic of China has attempted to reshape its public pension system. Although China's current pension system has drawn the attention of many policy analysts, no theoretically informed account on the politics of Chinese pension reform has yet been published. Grounded in a broad institutionalist perspective, this contribution analyses contemporary pension politics in China through the interplay of four main factors: (1) decentralisation and limited administrative capacity, which make it difficult to rationalise and transform the existing pension system;(2) feedback effects from previously enacted pension schemes that further complicate policy change; (3) liberalisation and economic reforms, which have created 'vested interests' in the newly established private sector, but which have lacked the strength to generate a mature financial system; (4) finally, the apparent dominance of the neo-liberal financial paradigm commonly associated with the World Bank. While this financial paradigm favours the adoption of new reform proposals, the economic and institutional factors mentioned above complicate their implementation.

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“…Despite political rhetoric, equality in urban employment has not been absolute (Ahmad and Hussain 1991: 279f.). In addition to the rural-urban divide, Selden and You point to the fact that the availability of benefits for urbanites depended on 'four primary axes' or classifications, i.e., (1) state or collective unit, (2) large or medium/small unit, (3) cadre rank or worker/apprentice and (4) regular or temporary/contract worker (Selden andYou 1997: 1659). The logic behind the division in welfare access is clearly political, in line with the systems of central planning and property rights, as well as the socio-political control carried out by cadres and the labour force inside and outside the work plans.…”

Section: Characteristics Of the Socialist Labour Regime (Slr)mentioning

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The Emergence of a New 'Socialist' Market Labour Regime in China

Hebel

Schucher

2006

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Emergence of a New 'Socialist' Market Labour Regime in China Abstract China's transition to a market economy has been a process of basic institutional changes and institution building. The institutional change from a socialist labour regime (SLR) as one of the backbones upholding the traditional leninist system to a new 'socialist' market labour regime (SMLR) became particularly important for the success of economic and political reforms. This analysis is based on the analytical framework of regimes and makes use of the idea of path dependence. An ensemble of institutions, mutually interconnected and influencing each other, forms the regime and shapes its trajectory. Six institutions are identified to constitute the employment regime: (1) the system of social control, (2) the production system, (3) the system of industrial relations, (4) the welfare system, (5) the family order, and (6) the educational system. The SMLR is still characterised by its socialist past and differs from other varieties of transformation labour regimes and bears little resemblance to labour regimes in Western market economies. Terms of use: Documents in

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The reform of social welfare in China

Cited by 58 publications

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Housing and Welfare Regimes: Examining the Changing Role of Public Housing in China

Housing and Welfare Regimes: Examining the Changing Role of Public Housing in China

A Long Financial March: Pension Reform in China

The Emergence of a New 'Socialist' Market Labour Regime in China

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