The Age of Mobility: Can Equalization of Public Health Services Alleviate the Poverty of Migrant Workers?

Ziming Zhou, Yumeng Jiang, Haitao Wu, Fan Jiang () and Zhiming Yu ()
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Ziming Zhou: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Yumeng Jiang: Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Nanjing 210042, China
Haitao Wu: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Fan Jiang: Institute of Agricultural Economics and Technology, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science, Wuhan 430073, China
Zhiming Yu: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 20, 1-18

Abstract: Migrants workers are important participants in and contributors to economic and social construction, but they still face the reality of being marginalized. Based on data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2018, this paper systematically investigated the impact of public health services on the multidimensional poverty of migrant workers. The research found that, first, the current mean of the multidimensional poverty deprivation value of migrant workers is 0.1806, which is one dimension of poverty that exists on average. In addition, migrant workers do not have high access to public health services. The proportions of migrant workers who have not established residents’ health files and who have not received public health education are 74.22% and 29.92%, respectively. Second, public health services can significantly alleviate the multidimensional poverty of migrant workers. After mitigating the potential endogeneity problem by the IV-2SLS method and conducting robustness tests by the PSM method, the conclusion is still robust. Further research found that the impact of public health services on the multidimensional poverty alleviation of migrant workers is heterogeneous. The improvement of public health services has the greatest effect on the multidimensional poverty alleviation of the new generation of migrant female workers in the western region. The research in this paper helps to examine and clarify the policy significance of public health services for the multidimensional poverty alleviation of migrant workers and provides empirical evidence for the use of public health services to tackle the poverty problem.

Keywords: migrant workers; public health services; multidimensional poverty; heterogeneity analysis; PSM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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