What determines pension insurance participation in China? Triangulation and the intertwined relationship among employers, employees and the government
利用中国雇主-雇员匹配调查数据，研究发现个人因素（如年龄、户口、工作特征）和宏观因素（如省际迁移、经济发展水平）共同影响养老保险覆盖，并通过定性分析揭示雇主、雇员与政府三方基于核心政策信念的倡导联盟互动。
The current study draws on the Advocacy Coalition Framework to examine what determines employees’ pension participation in China. For the purpose of exploring which employees actually receive pension coverage and why, econometric analysis was conducted with China’s Employer–Employee Matched Survey data (N = 3412). A variety of both individual factors, ranging from age and Hukou status to job characteristics, and macro factors, including interprovincial migration and level of economic development, are all found to predict insurance coverage. Qualitative research results contextualize these findings by discussing the often ambivalent and triangulated relations among employers, employees and government. These three groups primarily use shared core policy beliefs to structure their interactions in the form of advocacy coalitions. Various types of cross-coalition interaction, including negotiation, cooperation and conflict, are examined. These findings carry both theoretical and policy implications.