Dalian Maritime University Reports Findings in Public Health (The impacts of urban-rural integrated medical insurance on the quality of labor supply for migrant workers in China): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2023 OCT 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Health and Medicine - Public Health is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Dalian, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The transformation from the quantity of labor supply to the quality of labor supply is an important measure to improve the self-development of migrant workers. Based on the 2018 China Floating Population Dynamic Monitoring Survey data, this paper uses the 2SLS model based on instrumental variable estimation to analyze the impact of urban and rural integrated medical insurance on the quality of migrant workers’ labor supply.”

Financial support for this research came from Renmin University of China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Dalian Maritime University, “The study found that: First, urban and rural integrated medical insurance can significantly improve the quality of labor supply for migrant workers. Even with different instrumental variables and the use of propensity score matching for counterfactual inferences, the findings remain robust. Second, the impact of urban-rural integrated medical insurance on the quality of labor supply for migrant workers has nonlinear characteristics. At the low quantile, the impact of urban-rural integrated medical insurance on the quality of labor supply for migrant workers showed a downward trend, but with the increase of the quantile, the impact of urban and rural integrated medical insurance continued to increase, showing a U-shaped trend.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Urban-rural integrated medical insurance can not only directly reduce the labor time of migrant workers and ease the labor burden of migrant workers, but also indirectly improve the quality of labor supply for migrant workers through the intermediary role of promoting the availability of public services such as family contracted doctor services and health education.”

For more information on this research see: The impacts of urban-rural integrated medical insurance on the quality of labor supply for migrant workers in China. BMC Public Health, 2023;23(1):2028. BMC Public Health can be contacted at: Bmc, Campus, 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, England. (BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/; BMC Public Health - http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Xin Wang, School of Maritime Economics and Management, Gaoxin District, Dalian Maritime University, No.1 Linghai Road, Dalian, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Lele Li and Deshui Zhou.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16839-6. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal BMC Public Health is: Bmc, Campus, 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, England.

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