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...

Kendall's τ is a non-parametric measure of correlation based on ranks and is used in a wide range of research disciplines. Although methods are available for making inference about Kendall's τ, none has been extended to modeling multiple Kendall's τs arising in longitudinal data analysis....

The explosion of data and the increase in processing complexity, together with the increasing needs of real-time processing and concurrent data access, make remote sensing data streaming processing a wide research area to study. This paper introduces current situation of remote sensing data...

This paper constructs what we call a quality-differentiation model of Chinese trade. This model captures some salient features of Chinese trade and allows us to analyze the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality. At present, Chinese trade displays the following features: high-quality...

This paper investigates the Rybczynski theorem, the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, and the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem in a two-factor vertical production chain model of trade. For this purpose, capital is introduced into the model of Yano and Dei [Yano, M., & Dei, F. (2003). Trade, vertical production...

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...

Accounting plays a strategic role when accounting-based measures are used to set, communicate and execute strategy. In this paper, we describe and test a strategic role of accounting in the dynamic context of cyclical industries. Specifically, we examine how a strategic emphasis on balance sheet...