This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …

. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For … both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such data are for evaluating theories in personnel economics and whether … findings from such data generalize to the labor force at large. In this paper, we examine personnel data from six large …

plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of … insiders' capitalism that we describe, trough the costless appropriation of an intricate cobweb of Call-Put structures, has … two sides of the Warrant Economics coin. We argue that the Warrant Economics state of capitalism has been legitimised by a …

-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …