The Impact of Social Insurance on Employment Quality

Abstract

This paper empirically studies the impact of social insurance on employment quality based on China labor force dynamic survey in 2016. The results indicate that (1) social insurance significantly increases the annual salary of laborers and improves employment quality on the whole; (2) the impact of social insurance on the employment quality of laborers with different levels of education vary significantly, of which companies pass on their social insurance contributions to laborers with junior high school education and below, so social insurance remarkably reduces these people’s annual salary and job satisfaction; (3) social insurance significantly enhances employment quality by greatly improving the health of laborers.