Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft war nach dem 2. Weltkrieg die Grundlage für den Wirtschaftsaufschwung und das Wirtschaftswunder in Deutschland. Sie ist heute als Wirtschaftsmodell weltweit anerkannt und erfolgreich. 70 Jahre später ist die Welt jedoch eine andere. Globalisierung, Digitalisierung,...

Wohlstand und Wachstum hängen unumstößlich zusammen. Wachstum wiederum hängt am Fortschritt, der den Erhalt des Wohlstands ermöglicht. Dies geht einher mit stetiger struktureller Veränderung als Folge und Bedingung zugleich. Veränderung benötigt gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz. Akzeptanz...

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW.-CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH DESIGN -- CHAPTER 4. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OFORGANIZATIONAL ETHICAL CLIMATE, ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND JOB PERFORMANCEIN JFMEs IN CHINA -- CHAPTER 5. THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICAL CLIMATE ON ORGANIZATIONAL...

Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the...

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...

Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and social scientists. In this paper we use a Bayesian structural vector autoregression approach to estimate the relationship between inequality and growth via growth and inequality...

With the data on the top incomes collected from different sources, we combine the samples of the top incomes with a household survey to investigate changes in the income distribution with and without the top incomes. The Gini coefficient of income inequality using household survey data is 0.464...

By using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988-2013, this paper investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a small amount. The main reason for the rise in income...