Facing rapid demographic, social and economic transformation, China has taken steps to extend and strengthen the urban Minimum Living Standard Scheme (MLSS). The MLSS is a social assistance programme initially focused on the chronically poor, but later extended to the long-term unemployed. The...

Based on Lewis’ dual-sector model, this paper explores a new mathematical model to evaluate income inequality between urban and rural residents quantitatively. Using the model, this thesis indicates that as the urban population increases, the income inequality between rural and urban residents...

Managers play a key role in firm information production. This paper studies whether managers withhold bad news from the public immediately after successful and failed terrorist attacks. Conditional on a place being targeted, the timing of the attack is largely random to firms headquartered in...

We use institutional-related theories and a unique natural experiment that enables an exogenous test of the influence of controlling shareholders on managerial accountability to corporate fraud. In China, prior to the Split Share Structure Reform (SSSR), state shareholders held restricted shares...

By analyzing the Gini coefficient between rural and urban areas, we explore the general changing tendency of income inequality between rural and urban residents. In particular, we investigate Chinese rural-urban income disparity from1978 to 2012. The result shows that the growth of urban...

Data insufficiency has become the primary factor affecting research on income disparity in China. To resolve this issue, this paper explores Chinese income distribution and income inequality using distribution functions. First, it examines 20 sets of grouped data on family income between 2005...

This study proposes a new approach to analyse the effects of an overlap term on the calculation of the overall Gini coefficient and estimates China's Gini ratios since the adoption of the economic reform and open-door policies. A decomposition of the Chinese Gini coefficient for 1978–2010...

Transboundary horizontal eco-compensation in the river basin, as an innovation of ecological civilization, has realized the transformation of one-way to two-way compensation in China. This study constructed a tripartite evolutionary game model of two-way eco-compensation. Combined with cases of...

This paper explores a new mathematical model to evaluate income inequality between urban and rural residents quantitatively. It finds that as the urban population increases, the income inequality between rural and urban residents will first rise and then fall. These findings are applied to...

The literature shows that the main problem with calculating the Gini coefficient of Chinese residents’ incomes is the limitations of the data source. Though many studies have tried to overcome the limitations by decomposing the nationwide Gini coefficient into urban and rural areas, the final...