Acta Geographica Sinica ›› 2018, Vol. 73 ›› Issue (12): 2409-2422.doi: 10.11821/dlxb201812010

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Regional disparities and the influence mechanism within China's urban employees' basic endowment insurance funds

LI Qiong1,2(),ZHOU Yu1,ZHANG Lanlan3,WU Xiongzhou1,CHAO Nan1   

  1. 1. Jishou University Business School, Jishou 416000, Hunan, China
    2. Research Institute of Geoscience and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jishou University Academician's Expert Workstation, Jishou 416000, Hunan, China
    3. Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410081, China
  • Received:2018-05-17 Online:2018-12-14 Published:2018-12-14
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.41761029;National Social Science Foundation of China, No.15BSH122;Hunan Provincial Fund for Philosophy and Social Sciences, No.17YBX029

Abstract:

The reduction of regional disparities and the national co-ordination of basic endowment insurance funds will help to improve well-being, promote social equity and enhance happiness. This study engages with panel data obtained from 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) that was extracted during the period 2007-2016. Regional disparities and the influence mechanisms of China's urban employees' basic endowment insurance funds will be studied by using the Theil index, exploratory spatial data analysis and geographic detectors. The research shows that: (1) the total expenditure of urban employees' basic endowment insurance funds and the between-region Theil index steadily decrease while the within-region Terre index increases on a yearly basis; (2) the accumulated balances of urban employees' basic endowment insurance funds follow significantly different spatial distributions. High-value and sub-high-value areas are mainly located in the eastern region, while second-low-value and low-value areas are mainly located in the western and northeastern regions; (3) seven factors are also identified, including Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the number of subscriptions and institutional support rate that can greatly affect regional disparities in basic endowment insurance funds. In addition, the imposition of various factors are reflected as nonlinear increase or double factor enhancement. We should therefore adhere to coordinated regional socio-economic development, reinforce the contribution base, provide guarantees to those who have qualified and promote the incremental emergence of a national co-ordination of basic endowment insurance funds.

Key words: urban employees' basic endowment insurance, funds, regional disparities, influence mechanism