Yang Lazy And Indolent: Problems Of Urban Subsistence Welfare Dependency

Since the reform and opening up, along with the economic transformation and social transition, China’s urban poverty is becoming an important issue affecting China’s economic development. Changes in the field of urban poverty reduction achieved widespread relief from the fragmentation of interim relief. But while the guarantee of subsistence allowances for the townsmen ensuring basic living the urban poor, it suffered the same problem with the Western countries-welfare dependence. This has seriously affected the fairness and efficiency of guarantee of subsistence allowances. This paper reviewed the research background of urban poverty and welfare dependence and clarified the concept of welfare dependence. On the basis of the review, through the microeconomic statistical data analysis and T community of Chongqing case study, this paper reveals the status quo of China’s urban residents’welfare dependence. And then analyzes welfare dependence from institution, strategic behavior, function and poverty culture. In the institutional analysis, this paper analyzes such as guarantee of subsistence allowances runs counter to the encouragement of employment, fringe benefits constitute becomes extra power of application, the cliff effect: guarantee of subsistence allowances blurs the edges of low marginal, supervise failure:the gap of system requirements and actuality, check dilemma: nocooperation of different department, welfare stigma: Openness and privacy can not balance. In the strategic behavior analysis, the possibility of welfare dependence:the operators’legality demands, from shame to deserve:the change of the applicants from morality to rights, opportunism: fraudulent behavior of the crowed of above the support line, surrounding residents’taking use of the guarantee of subsistence allowances are all thought to be lead to welfare dependence. In the function analysis, gives both the Integration and anomie, elaborate the Community integration and the broken of fairness and efficiency aspects. Furthermore, this paper elaborates the produce and the continuation of the poverty culture.