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Economic Segmentation and Health Inequalities in Urban Post-Reform China

During economic reform, Chinese economic labor markets became segmented by state sector associated with a planned redistributive economy and private sector associated with the market economy. By considering an economic sector as a concrete institutional setting in post-reform China, this paper compa...

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Autor principal: Kwon, Soyoung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AIMS Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5689812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29546178
http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2016.3.487
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description During economic reform, Chinese economic labor markets became segmented by state sector associated with a planned redistributive economy and private sector associated with the market economy. By considering an economic sector as a concrete institutional setting in post-reform China, this paper compares the extent to which socioeconomic status, measured by education and income, is associated with self-rated health between state sector and private sector. The sample is limited to urban Chinese employees between the ages of 18 and 55 who were active in the labor force. By analyzing pooled data from the 1991–2006 Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey, I find that there is a stronger association between income and self-rated health in the private sector than in the state sector. This study suggests that sectoral differences between market and redistributive economies are an important key to understanding health inequalities in post-reform urban China.
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spelling pubmed-56898122018-03-15 Economic Segmentation and Health Inequalities in Urban Post-Reform China Kwon, Soyoung AIMS Public Health Research Article During economic reform, Chinese economic labor markets became segmented by state sector associated with a planned redistributive economy and private sector associated with the market economy. By considering an economic sector as a concrete institutional setting in post-reform China, this paper compares the extent to which socioeconomic status, measured by education and income, is associated with self-rated health between state sector and private sector. The sample is limited to urban Chinese employees between the ages of 18 and 55 who were active in the labor force. By analyzing pooled data from the 1991–2006 Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey, I find that there is a stronger association between income and self-rated health in the private sector than in the state sector. This study suggests that sectoral differences between market and redistributive economies are an important key to understanding health inequalities in post-reform urban China. AIMS Press 2016-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5689812/ /pubmed/29546178 http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2016.3.487 Text en © 2016 Soyoung Kwon, licensee AIMS Press This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5689812/
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