Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study convergence and income mobility of China’s rural households. Design … value which is far below China’s per capita gross domestic product. Research limitations/implications Since a lot of the … pattern and future development of rural household income in China through the use of stochastic kernel approach.  …

China. Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopts a time approach, meaning the paper is organized by initiate … provides a brief and general image of the Chinese RCMS and helps people to understand the RCMS in China. …

Medical Scheme (NRCMS), as well as in outpatient and inpatient service utilization, in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. Design … study to empirically test the adverse selection in China's medical insurance market from the perspective of two different …

forms a key plank in efforts to improve rural household livelihoods in Western China. Design/methodology/approach – The …-livestock systems is crucial if improvements are to be made and as these systems become more widespread in Western China. …

China has made encouraging progress in education and health causes, the role of poor health as an intervening factor in … status of elementary school children living in the poor countryside of western China and its educational consequence with the …

different provinces in China. China prioritized a NSC reform policy in 2005 to address the growing disparities in incomes and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate determinants of regional disparities in China's agricultural … labor productivity growth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first decomposes the regional disparity in China … 2005, although the growth of China's agricultural labor productivity mainly depended on the accumulation of inputs …

households and water-saving investments and irrigation water use in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – Data from a survey …-farm employment and agricultural production in China than neoclassical economic theory. Originality/value – The paper expands the NELM …

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss whether the younger generation of China's rural labor force is prepared, in terms … of education level or labor quality, for the future labor markets under China's industrial upgrading. Design …, and some policy implications are made. Findings – This paper finds that China's young rural laborers are generally poorly …