Old Age Support in Urban China: The Role of Pension Schemes, Self-Support Ability and Intergenerational Assistance
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Public Pension Scheme, Intergenerational Assistance and Self Support
2.1. Pension Reform in China
2.2. Intergenerational Assistance and Self Support Ability
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Data and Variables
3.1.1. Dependent Variable
3.1.2. Explanatory Variables
Public Pension and Pension Inequality
Intergenerational Assistance and Self Support Ability
Control Variables
3.2. Analysis
4. Results and Discussion
4.1. Ordered Logit Analysis
4.1.1. Effect of Pension and Pension Inequality on Life Satisfaction of Retired Urban Elderly
4.2.2. Effect of Intergenerational Support and Self Support on the Life Satisfaction of Retired Urban Elderly
4.2.3. Effect of Old Age Support on Life Satisfaction among Pension Beneficiaries and Non-Beneficiaries
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Appendix B
Variables | VIF | 1/VIF |
---|---|---|
Education | 1.44 | 0.69 |
Age | 1.43 | 0.70 |
Hukou Status | 1.42 | 0.70 |
Pension benefit from EEBP | 1.42 | 0.70 |
Communication with children | 1.38 | 0.72 |
Marital status | 1.38 | 0.73 |
Residence Ownership | 1.38 | 0.73 |
Pension benefit from GIP | 1.29 | 0.77 |
Cohabiting with children | 1.29 | 0.78 |
Gender | 1.26 | 0.79 |
Public Pension | 1.24 | 0.81 |
Financial assistance from children | 1.16 | 0.86 |
Personal Finance | 1.16 | 0.86 |
Education2 | 1.14 | 0.88 |
Have at least one child | 1.13 | 0.88 |
Pension Income Inequality | 1.12 | 0.90 |
Pension benefit from URRSP | 1.09 | 0.92 |
Health status based on ADL and IADL | 1.09 | 0.92 |
Pension Income Inequality × Hukou Status | 1.04 | 0.96 |
Health status based on chronic disease | 1.04 | 0.96 |
Pension Inequality × Gender | 1.06 | 0.97 |
Mean VIF | 1.23 |
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Variables | Definitions | Mean | Standard Deviation (SD) | Min | Max |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | Age of the respondents | 68.72 | 7.02 | 60 | 105 |
Education2 | The square of educational level | 16.47 | 15.23 | 1 | 100 |
Personal Financing | Individual assets including past year wages, income from self-employed activities of past year, proceeds from renting out owned apartment, savings of this household (deposit, cash) and financial capitals (market value of stocks and mutual funds, value of government bonds, value of public housing funds) measured in 1000 RMB | 22.70 | 6.83 | 0 | 576 |
Health status based on ADL and IADL | Health status measured by the weighted sum of ADL and IADL ranging from 1 to 4 | 3.10 | 0.49 | 1.05 | 3.81 |
Communication with children | Frequency of communication with non-cohabiting children within a year. | 20 | 12.80 | 0 | 56 |
Financial assistance from children | Financial support from non-cohabiting children with in a year (1000 RMB) | 3.40 | 6.98 | 0 | 40 |
Pension Income Inequality | The Gini coefficient of monthly pension income on provincial level | 0.73 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.89 |
Pension benefit from GIP | Amount of monthly benefits respondent receives from the Government and Institution Pension scheme (1000 RMB). | 3.71 | 3.25 | 0.45 | 51.2 |
Pension benefit from EEBP | Amount of monthly benefits respondent receives from the Enterprise Employee Basic Pension scheme (1000 RMB). | 2.43 | 0.91 | 0.14 | 8 |
Pension benefit from URRSP | Amount of monthly benefits respondent receives from the Urban-Rural Social Residents Pension scheme (1000 RMB). | 0.32 | 0.54 | 0.058 | 4 |
N (%) | Min | Max | |||
Life satisfaction | 1 = “not at all satisfied”; 2 = “not very satisfied”; 3 = “somewhat satisfied”; 4 = “very satisfied”; 5 = “completely satisfied” | 1 (1.66%) 2 (5.05%) 3 (49.50%) 4 (37.74%) 5 (6.05%) | 1 | 5 | |
Education (Edu) | The highest level of education the respondent received; 1 = “illiterate”, 10 = “Master’s degree” | 1 (19.45%) 2 (14.50%) 3 (21.68%) 4 (18.22%) 5 (14.76%) 6 (4.51%) 7 (3.80%) 8 (1.86%) 9 (1.21%) 10 (0.03%) | 1 | 10 | |
Gender | Gender of respondent, 1 = male, 0 = female | 0 (51%) 1 (49%) | 0 | 1 | |
Marital Status | Marital status of respondent; 1 = “single”, 0 = “with alive partner” | 0 (77.30%) 1 (22.70%) | 0 | 1 | |
Hukou Status | Residence status of respondent, where 1 denotes having urban residence status and 0 otherwise. | 0 (45.16%) 1 (54.84%) | 0 | 1 | |
Residence Ownership | Ownership of current living house, with 1 representing ‘the current living house is entirely or partly owned by the respondent’ and 0 ‘otherwise’ | 0 (39.79%) 1 (60.21%) | 0 | 1 | |
Health status based on Chronic disease | Whether the respondent suffers from any chronic disease (physical, mental and cognitive), with 1 ‘denoting suffers from a chronic disease’ and 0 ‘otherwise’ | 0 (33.11%) 1 (66.89%) | 0 | 1 | |
Have at least one child | Whether the respondent has a at least one child, where 1 measures the respondent has children and 0 otherwise | 0 (5.06%) 1 (94.94%) | 0 | 1 | |
Cohabiting with children | Whether the respondent lives in the same house with children or not, where 1 represents the respondent shares the same roof with their children and 0, otherwise. | 0 (77%) 1 (23%) | 0 | 1 | |
Public Pension | Whether or not the respondent receives regular monthly benefits from any of the pension schemes. | 0 (35.3%) 1 (64.27%) | 0 | 1 |
Variables | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 |
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Pension Inequality | |||
Pension Income Inequality | −0.8576 *** (0.3262) | −1.0176 *** (0.3275) | −1.5752 *** (0.3542) |
Pension Income Inequality × Gender | 1.1582 * (0.6551) | 1.3759 ** (0.6774) | |
Pension Income Inequality × Hukou status | 1.3493 ** (0.7982) | ||
Pension | |||
Public Pension | 0.4123 *** (0.0963) | 0.4339 *** (0.0953) | 0.3374 *** (0.0946) |
Pension benefit from GIP | 0.2163 *** (0.0298) | 0.2180 *** (0.0300) | 0.2571 *** (0.0290) |
Pension benefit from EEBP | 0.2177 *** (0.0389) | 0.2157 *** (0.0394) | 0.2916 *** (0.0387) |
Pension benefit from URRSP | 0.0436 (0.0982) | 0.0266 (0.0994) | 0.0310 (0.0990) |
Self_Support_Ability | |||
Personal Finance | 0.0012 *** (0.0004) | 0.0011 ** (0.0004) | 0.0012 ** (0.0004) |
Residence Ownership | 0.4238 *** (0.0758) | 0.4387 *** (0.0757) | 0.4266 ** (0.0759) |
Health status based on ADL and IADL | 0.4505 *** (0.1501) | 0.4249 ** (0.1489) | 0.4497 *** (0.1463) |
Health status based on chronic disease | −0.2989 *** (0.0669) | −0.2952 *** (0.0673) | −0.3109 *** (0.0675) |
Intergenerational_Support | |||
Have at least one child | 0.3910 ** (0.2125) | 0.3856 ** (0.2122) | 0.5368 ** (0.2145) |
Cohabiting with children | −0.0828 (0.0865) | −0.0915 (0.0867) | −0.1156 (0.0873) |
Financial assistance from children | 0.0008 (0.0051) | 0.0009 (0.0051) | 0.0006 (0.0051) |
Communication with children | 0.0130 ***(0.0028) | 0.0117 *** (0.0028) | 0.0101 *** (0.0028) |
Control Variable | |||
Age | YES | YES | YES |
Education Education2 | YES YES | YES YES | YES YES |
Marital status | YES | YES | YES |
Gender | YES | YES | YES |
Hukou status | YES | YES | YES |
Regression Index | |||
Wald Chi2 | 501.40 | 512.46 | 459.60 |
Prob > Chi2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Pseudo R2 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.05 |
Observations | 3815 | 3815 | 3815 |
Variables | Pension Beneficiaries | Non-Beneficiaries |
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Pension Inequality and Pension Types | ||
Pension income Inequality | −0.8856 ** (0.4012) | −1.0397 * (0.6474) |
Pension benefit from GIP | 0.1902 *** (0.0464) | |
Pension benefit from EEBP | 0.0959 *** (0.0539) | |
Pension benefit from URRSP | 0.0198 (0.1167) | |
Pension benefits from GIP × financial assistance from children | 0.0066 (0.0069) | |
Pension benefits from EEBP × financial assistance from children | 0.0086 (0.0053) | |
Pension benefits from URRSP × financial assistance from children | 0.0024 (0.0245) | |
Self_Support Ability | ||
Personal Finance | 0.0015 *** (0.0006) | 0.0021 ** (0.0010) |
Residence ownership | 0.4115 *** (0.0940) | 0.5483 *** (0.1446) |
Health status based on ADL and IADL | 0.6539 *** (0.2649) | 0.3486 ** (0.1714) |
Health status based on chronic disease | −0.2583 ** (0.0884) | −0.4493 *** (0.1427) |
Health status based on ADL_IADL × Cohabiting with children | −0.7450 (0.6264) | −0.6879 (0.3444) |
Health status based on chronic disease × Cohabiting with children | −0.2769 (0.0918) | −0.0126 (0.2921) |
Intergenerational_Support | ||
Have at least one child | 0.4117 *** (0.2632) | 0.4205 ** (0.2398) |
Cohabiting with children | −0.3353 ** (0.6953) | −0.1976 (0.3629) |
Financial assistance from children | 0.0052 (0.0093) | 0.0305 *** (0.0101) |
Communication with children | 0.0078 ** (0.0035) | 0.0149 *** (0.0048) |
Cohabiting with children × Marital Status | 0.4639 *** (0.2231) | 0.7304 *** (0.2969) |
Control Variables | YES | YES |
Wald Chi2 | 404.15 | 219.07 |
Prob > Chi2 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Pseudo R2 | 0.08 | 0.06 |
Observations | 2452 | 1363 |
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Abruquah, L.A.; Yin, X.; Ding, Y. Old Age Support in Urban China: The Role of Pension Schemes, Self-Support Ability and Intergenerational Assistance. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 1918. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111918
Abruquah LA, Yin X, Ding Y. Old Age Support in Urban China: The Role of Pension Schemes, Self-Support Ability and Intergenerational Assistance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(11):1918. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111918
Chicago/Turabian StyleAbruquah, Lucille Aba, Xiuxia Yin, and Ya Ding. 2019. "Old Age Support in Urban China: The Role of Pension Schemes, Self-Support Ability and Intergenerational Assistance" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 11: 1918. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16111918