Abstract
The research uses a comparative analysis framework to interpret the multiple commodification processes for the working poor, which consists of research tropisms from a macro-sight system and from the internal mechanism and proceeding course of the social security system. Based on this framework, the authors try to establish an ideal type with a universal explanatory power to reveal the impact of cross-national diversity on social security systems in the decommodification process among poor female workers. The research also examines the extent to which such differences ever existed between Belgium and China in empirical terms.
Highlights
According to the cross-national observation, women who work in poverty have different profiles in Belgium and China
The social security systems in Belgium and China are based on work performance, the decommodification process shows its diversity through the significant differences in social structures and social security models
Medium social contract through negotiating among individuals, organizations, and the state; it tends to pursue a generalized and equal decommodification process for all citizens based on the understanding of universal welfare
Summary
According to the cross-national observation, women who work in poverty have different profiles in Belgium and China. Within three types of pension systems in China, the replacement rate of public unities and government agencies is relatively high while with zero individual’s sharing until 2015 (since 2015, the Pension C system has been in the reform process, which regulated that workers in the state organ or public institutions have to pay 8 percent into their new created individual accounts5), which means that individuals in Pensions A and B had always paid pension fees partially for Pension C. according to the report of Statistical Bulletin of Human Resources and Social Security (2016), China’s public unities (institutions) has 30 million people, and the numbers in government agencies have reached 7.167 million people at the end of 2015 On this basis, the employer-administered system (Pension C) covers nearly 38 million people, while poor female workers are less possible working in such a lucky system. Under this classified social security system and limited access to family benefits, the poor female Chinese workers still pay for the main benefits and provide for family care and domestic work with increased time and energy; they experience a hard and heavy process of decommodification
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