Article
Financial Well-Being of the Non-Profit Social Service Workforce in China
The British Journal of Social Work
(2021)
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
- China,
- finance,
- financial well-being,
- income,
- non-profit workforce
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2021
DOI
10.1093/bjsw/bcaa176
Citation Information
Ling Zhou, Baorong Guo and Jin Huang. "Financial Well-Being of the Non-Profit Social Service Workforce in China" The British Journal of Social Work Vol. 51 Iss. 8 (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/baorong-guo/78/