Voluntary social insurance for Vietnamese laborers in the informal economic sector

Mai, Linh; Nguyen, Hoa Trung; Nguyen, Nga T. T.; Nguyen, Ty

doi:10.1111/aswp.12213

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“…Therefore, we need to shift from crisis response to resilience-building for migrant workers by broadening the range of social protection measures for contracted workers to, for instance, partly recover income loss during work suspension (by employers) and receive unemployment payment (through social insurances). Meanwhile, non-contractual workers are entirely out of the public social security scheme, and voluntary social insurance remains unaffordable and provides a limited range of benefits (Mai et al 2021). Therefore, we recommend to reform further the social security system to extend the coverage and benefits to the most vulnerable people.…”

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How Did Covid-19 Affect Food and Nutrition Security of Migrant Workers in Northern Vietnam?

Ebata¹,

Nguyen²,

Nguyen³

et al. 2022

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This study explored how measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in Vietnam affected the livelihoods and food and nutrition security of internal migrant workers. While Vietnam has made impressive progress towards food security in the past decades, marginalised groups of people such as ethnic minorities and migrants continue to face significant challenges. The project team investigated how the pandemic affected the precarity of these groups’ income-generating opportunities and how the level of income generated affected the quality, as well as the quantity, of food consumed by migrant workers in Hanoi, the capital, and the Bac Ninh province, which hosts large industrial zones. Our research shows that income for migrant workers significantly reduced as a result of Covid-19-related lockdown measures.

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How Did Covid-19 Affect Food and Nutrition Security of Migrant Workers in Northern Vietnam?

Ebata¹,

Nguyen²,

Nguyen³

et al. 2022

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‘He is just getting old, you know’: the role of cultural and health beliefs in shaping the help-seeking process of family members caring for persons with dementia in Vietnam

2021

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Identifying and prioritizing factors influencing the social insurance contribution of unorganized workers

Dash Mohapatra,

Sahoo,

Chopra

2024

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore and prioritize the factors that determine the social insurance contribution of unorganized workers.Design/methodology/approachA two-stage procedure was adopted to recognize and prioritize factors influencing the social insurance participation of unorganized workers: first, crucial factors influencing unorganized workers’ contribution towards social insurance were identified by employing exploratory factor analysis, and in the second phase, the fuzzy analytical hierarchal process was applied to rank the specified criteria and then sub-criteria by assigning weights.FindingsFour broad factors were identified, namely, economic, political, operational and socio-psychological, that significantly influence unorganized workers’ contribution towards social insurance. Later findings revealed that the prime influencer of unorganized workers’ contribution is employment contracts followed by average earnings, delivery of quality services, eligibility and accessibility.Practical implicationsThe research findings are feasible as the basic propositions are based on real-world scenario. The identification and ranking of factors have the potential to be used as a checklist for policymakers when designing pension and social insurance for unorganized workers. If it is not possible to consider all, the criteria and sub-criteria assigned upper rank can be given priority to extend pension coverage for a large group of working poor.Social implicationsThe key factors driving social insurance contributions have been highlighted by studying the stakeholders’ perceptions at a micro level. By comprehending the challenges, there is a possibility of covering a large section of the working poor into social insurance coverage.Originality/valueThis paper is believed to be one of its kinds to acknowledge a combination of factors that determine the contribution of unorganized workers to social insurance. This study is an empirical investigation to prioritize the essential drivers of social insurance participation by low-income cohorts in the context of emerging countries. The present approach of employing fuzzy logic has also very limited use in social insurance literature yet.

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Voluntary social insurance for Vietnamese laborers in the informal economic sector

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

How Did Covid-19 Affect Food and Nutrition Security of Migrant Workers in Northern Vietnam?

How Did Covid-19 Affect Food and Nutrition Security of Migrant Workers in Northern Vietnam?

‘He is just getting old, you know’: the role of cultural and health beliefs in shaping the help-seeking process of family members caring for persons with dementia in Vietnam

Identifying and prioritizing factors influencing the social insurance contribution of unorganized workers

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