Based on the sustainable development model of Van Horne extended dynamic equilibrium and the structural equation model, this paper uses the signed rank test of Wilcoxon to judge whether the automobile manufacturing enterprises achieve sustainable development or not. Furthermore, it tests the...

This study sheds light on the dynamic of China's urban labor market during the period 1991-2009, focusing on job creation, job destruction, worker inflows, and worker outflows. We used worker-related data for all industries, including reallocations between firms and within firms. We found that...

Our study provides empirical evidence for matching functions with three heterogeneous groups of job seekers in China, and bridges the gap of matching function estimation of the Chinese labor market. We find that the effects of non-unemployed job seekers in the empirical matching process for...

ABSTRACT This research paper focused on the corporate restructuring of Nippon Telegraph Telecommunication (NTT Group) under the pure holding company structure in 1999 and its implications. In order to understand the holding company structure, we introduced the concept of "internal capital...

The authors examine the experience of selected central banks that have used large-scale balance-sheet expansion, frequently referred to as “quantitative easing,” as a monetary policy instrument. The case studies focus on central banks responding to the recent financial crisis and Nordic...

This paper proposes a method for solving stochastic multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems, where evaluations of alternatives on considered criteria are random variables with known probability density functions or probability mass functions. Probabilities on all possible results of...

<Para ID="Par1">The spatial pattern of the uncertainty in air pollution-related health impacts due to climate change has rarely been studied due to the lack of high-resolution model simulations, especially under the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), the latest greenhouse gas emission pathways. We...</para>

Large firms have been creating a significantly higher fraction of jobs since the Great Recession.

A one-year subsidy program for energy-efficient home appliances has been implemented in China. We construct a dataset consisting of participant and non-participant households in both urban and rural areas of Rizhao city. By applying a quantile regression and counterfactual analysis, this study...