Financial Well-Being of the Non-Profit Social Service Workforce in China
- 9 October 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The British Journal of Social Work
- Vol. 51 (8), 3035-3054
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa176
Abstract
Using secondary data from the 2017 online survey of 736 non-profit social service employees in urban China, this study provides a complete description of the financial well-being of the non-profit social service workforce and examines correlates of financial well-being. Results show that non-profit employees’ household income is lower than the disposable income of a typical urban household. Nearly one-third of social service professionals have short-term unsecured debts, 10 per cent do not have public health insurance coverage and another 22 per cent report economic hardships caused by large unexpected expenses. Correlates of financial well-being include individual characteristics (e.g. age, education and marital status) and organizational characteristics (type, revenue and size). New services (e.g. employment-based programmes and financial services) are proposed to promote financial well-being of non-profit social service employees in China.Keywords
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