This paper estimates China’s industrial costs under the virtual cost accounting approach. The estimation results show that Chinese industries have disbursed an increasing amount of environmental costs since 1992 while expanding environmental investment; China’s industrial cleanness has been...

In this paper, we find that better environmental, social, and governmental (ESG) performance is associated with lower audit pricing in terms of both raw and abnormal audit fees in China. But the environmental, social, and governmental pillars don't play the same role in driving that...

Drawing on a survey of migrants in 12 cities across four major urbanising areas in China, this paper analyses rural migrants’ intention for permanent urban settlement. We focus on one sizeable but often overlooked group of rural migrants, that is, the self-employed. Our hypothesis is that...