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Economic activities in old age: Experiences of the urban and rural elderly in contemporary China.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Economic activities in old age: Experiences of the urban and rural elderly in contemporary China./
Author:	Feng, Zhanlian.
Description:	183 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Frances K. Goldscheider.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	Gerontology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3050885
ISBN:	0493654801

Economic activities in old age: Experiences of the urban and rural elderly in contemporary China.
Feng, Zhanlian.

Economic activities in old age: Experiences of the urban and rural elderly in contemporary China. - 183 p.

Adviser: Frances K. Goldscheider.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2002.

Using data from the 1992 survey on China's Support Systems for the Elderly, this dissertation examines the patterns and determinants of economic activity among elderly Chinese in both urban and rural areas. The theoretical framework stresses familial support, economic resources and individual sociodemographic characteristics as important determinants of work-retirement decisions in old age. Results indicate that the rural elderly are economically more active than their urban counterparts, and regardless of residence, elderly men remain longer in the labor force than elderly women. Familial support factors, especially financial contributions from children, are found important in predicting retirement, and appear to be more so in rural than in urban areas. Rising incomes tend to reduce elderly labor supply, but this effect appears to be more salient in urban than in rural areas. These differences are interpreted in the context of pervasive urban-rural inequalities in contemporary Chinese society. The regional comparisons indicate that economic activities of the urban elderly follow a U-shaped pattern with development, in contrast to a linearly declining one in rural areas. The effects of various determinants appear to vary much less across sub-regions at different levels of development <italic>within </italic> either urban or rural areas than <italic>between</italic> them, providing meager evidence to bear out the hypothesis that rising incomes will “displace” the importance of familial support in elderly retirement not in any time soon, at least in the Chinese case. An analysis of the urban pensioners indicates that although those possessing more political capital enjoyed the privilege of staying longer on their career job, the post-retirement urban labor market favored those with higher levels of human capital.

ISBN: 0493654801Subjects--Topical Terms:

533633
Gerontology.

Economic activities in old age: Experiences of the urban and rural elderly in contemporary China.
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