In health economic evaluation studies, to value productivity loss due to absenteeism, existing methods use wages as a … proxy value for marginal productivity. This study is the first to test the equality between wage and marginal productivity …. However, the productivity gap between these two groups is considerably larger than the wage gap. In small firms, employee …

This paper investigates the rapid growth of China's share in the international commodity market and the structural … changes of China's commodity exports. It demonstrates a significant improvement of international competitiveness in China …'s manufacturing sector. The panel data analysis, based on a Solow-Swan type growth model on China's 37 manufacturing industries from …

physician–patient interactions. Our results suggest that antibiotics abuse in China is not driven by patients actively demanding …

serious problem in China. The full development and utilization of renewable energy is the key and effective way for solving … the CO2 emissions problem. This paper reviews the rural energy consumption level and structure in China. Then, this paper … that if full development and utilization of renewable energy is achieved, on the basis of energy data in 2008, China …

China and the United States of America (US) are developing renewable energy concurrently. In this paper, we seek the …