THESIS
2013
viii leaves, 56 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
Situated in China’s market transition, this study adds new evidence to existing
literature concerning the costs of transition by examining the effects of
intragenerational job mobility across economic sectors on individuals’ subjective
well-being. Based on pooled data analysis of restricted urban samples from the China
General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2003, 2006 and 2008, the effects of two kinds of
state-to-nonstate job mobility are highlighted: voluntary state-to-nonstate mobility and
involuntary state-to-nonstate mobility, and their potential underlying mechanisms are
further explored. Consistent results from ordered logit regressions suggest that both
voluntary and involuntary mobility significantly decrease individuals’ subjective
well-being, and their effects tend to preva...[
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Situated in China’s market transition, this study adds new evidence to existing
literature concerning the costs of transition by examining the effects of
intragenerational job mobility across economic sectors on individuals’ subjective
well-being. Based on pooled data analysis of restricted urban samples from the China
General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2003, 2006 and 2008, the effects of two kinds of
state-to-nonstate job mobility are highlighted: voluntary state-to-nonstate mobility and
involuntary state-to-nonstate mobility, and their potential underlying mechanisms are
further explored. Consistent results from ordered logit regressions suggest that both
voluntary and involuntary mobility significantly decrease individuals’ subjective
well-being, and their effects tend to prevail over an extended period of time as well as
across different social groups. Institutional segmentation in terms of distinctive
allocation of social welfare benefits, rather than psychosocial factors, plays an
important role as a nexus linking state-to-nonstate mobility to subjective well-being.
On the one hand, voluntary mobile individuals experienced a trade-off by enjoying
higher paid-off while losing a sense of security. On the other hand, involuntary
mobility per se as a kind of downward mobility leaves long-term psychological scars
to those who experienced layoff or unemployment after controlling for social welfare
benefits. Results from robustness checks indicate that neither observed nor
unobserved confounding factors, if any, would affect our conclusions.
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