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Social protection and migration in China : what can protect migrants from economic uncertainty?
Song, Lina (contributor); Appleton, Simon (contributor) - 2008
Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle … ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737639
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Internal finance and growth : microeconometric evidence on Chinese firms
Guariglia, Alessandra (contributor);  … - 2008
Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771888
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Life satisfaction in urban China : components and determinants
Song, Lina (contributor); Appleton, Simon (contributor) - 2008
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688789
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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008
restructuring would sustain higher post-restructuring performance. -- Corporate social responsibility ; profit maximisation ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688795
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The economics of communist party membership : the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John B.; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … characteristics. -- China ; Communist Party ; labour market ; economic transition ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688799
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Growing out of poverty : trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988 - 2002
Appleton, Simon (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688804
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In search of gender bias in household resource allocation in rural China
Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008
This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … allocation ; women ; bargaining power ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688809
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Investment and financing constraints in China : does working capital management make a difference?
Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra; Knight, John B. - In: Journal of banking & finance 37 (2013) 5, pp. 1490-1507
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729062
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The effects of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China : 1988 - 2007
Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Li, Shi; Appleton, Simon - 2013
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household …. -- China ; state sector ; wage inequality ; quantile regression ; counterfactual analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696006
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Job contact networks and wages of rural-urban migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792989