Many specialists in international trade have started saying that the era of a mega FTA is approaching. If the three poles of the global economy, namely East Asia, EU and the United States, form mega FTAs, most of the volume of global trade will be covered. That may be fine, but there will be...

This paper examines the economic and noneconomic determinants of growth disparity among Chinese villages between 1990 and 2002. By estimating a growth equation, first, we confirm a significant positive effect of the initial level of human capital, as well as the initial condition of physical...

Let X = Xkk [greater-or-equal, slanted] 1 be an i.i.d. random sequence and Y =Ykk [greater-or-equal, slanted] 1 be an independent random sequence which is also independent of X. We suppose X and Y take values in the sequence space , where S is either , the space of non-negative integers, or +,...

This paper presents the impact of income inequality on the subjective wellbeing of three different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, gbornh urban residents, and gacquiredh urban residents who had changed their hukou...

This study investigates the redistributive effect of the social security reform in urban China using the nationally representative urban household surveys in 1995 and 2002. The main findings are as follows. First, public pension is the main income for the elderly in urban China. Majority of...

Using a 2006 household survey from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China, this paper examines two aspects of the correlation between ethnicity and income: namely, differences in the returns to human capital and the effects of ethnicity- and religion-related social capital. The findings...

The paper studies the convergence of the cluster-variation method to the rigorous result as the cluster size increases. The calculation is done on the phase boundary at T = 0 between the A2B-type ordered phase and the disordered phase on a two-dimensional triangular lattice with nearest-neighbor...

Behaviors of the generalized random walks (GRW) are directly studied by using computer. The GRW have a non-linear term yielding a non-Markovian character. The non-Markovian character represents memory effects in the processes through the jumping probabilities P̃αN(m|m−α1) between sites...