Social insurance with Chinese characteristics: The role of communist party in private firms

Zhiqiang Dong (dongzhiqiang@m.scnu.edu.cn), Zijun Luo and Xiahai Wei

China Economic Review, 2016, vol. 37, issue C, 40-51

Abstract: This paper studies the inter-correlation among the Communist Party of China (CPC), unionization, and social insurance in a sample of Chinese private firms. We find that both Party branch and unionization are positively associated with insurance coverage. We further present evidence that Party branch and unionization are complements in association with better coverage of social insurance. When the Party–union complementarity is taken into account, Party branch alone is no longer positively associated with social insurance, while the correlation between unionization and insurance declines significantly. Our results suggest that the role of the CPC is overlooked in the literature on labor relations in China.

Keywords: Communist Party of China; Unionization; Employee benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J51 J83 P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2015.09.009

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