Social insurance of China's migrant workers

摘要

Migrant workers are one of China's most important economic assets and support China's major industries. However, Migrant workers confront health challenges stemming from the nature of their work, and their low income and their mobility. Based on a survey of 1,702 cases of migrant workers and applying SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) to get the general situation of social insurance participation of the samples, an overview of China's migrant workers is provided in the beginning of the paper Moreover, the regression result shows that (1) the goal of "to increase income" cannot encourage migrant workers to claim "unemployment insurance and pension plan"; (2) "government care" will enhance migrant workers' motivation to claim social insurance; (3) receiving "unemployment insurance and pension plan" has benefit to decreasing the mobility of migrant workers, (4) receiving "unemployment insurance" will give migrant workers the expectation of "to live a better life".