Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...

We examined the impact of credit rationing on the net income and consumption of Chinese rural households by studying survey panel data from 1000 Chinese rural households from 2003 to 2009. Our results revealed that 61.5% of Chinese rural households were rationed in the credit market; 52.0% were...

In this paper, the characteristics of physical and chemical composition of municipal solid waste (MSW) in China were reviewed and the statistical indexes, namely mean value, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and t-test, were applied to analyze the physical composition, proximate,...

Despite academic consensus on the concomitant power of triple contexts (country, industry and firm) for business, debates remain as to which context plays more salient a role to drive brand performance. This paper investigates how the triple contexts affect customers’ views of corporate brands...

This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...

This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...

This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...

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This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...