... and Pestieau, 2000). China is facing these challenges on an unprecedented scale. As the country with the world’s largest elderly population, China had more than 220 million people aged 65 and above by the end of 2024, accounting for 15.6% of the population (National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2025...

.../methodology/approach First, we propose two theoretical hypotheses based on existing literature and develop an overlapping generations model incorporating overeducation and educational attainment, with conclusions aligning with the hypotheses. Second, using data from the China Family Panel Studies, we...

... in the emerging markets of India and China promote SDGs 8 (decent work and economic growth), 10 (reduced inequalities) and 13 (climate action). We also propose a framework integrating these key SDG goals with core HRM functions. Design/methodology/approach Secondary data analysis was employed using data from...

...Shiyang Liu; Weibiao Ma; Nanxin Deng Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of noncognitive skills on educational mismatch in the context of China and to further explore the potential mechanisms concerning how noncognitive skills determine mismatch outcomes. Design...

.... Business ties have a positive effect on a firm's adoption of green innovation. Business ties Political ties Absorptive capacity Green innovation Social capital theory China Recently, going green has become an almost inescapable strategic choice enabling firms to manage increasingly...

... of stringency of the local requirement that unions be established in a timely fashion and the other reflecting requirements for employers to negotiate wages with the union. The authors use individual level data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of 2010 to estimate the union earnings premium...

... to be affected by MWs given their generally low skills and educational qualifications. China Migrant workers Propensity score Minimum wages Cost offsets Difference-in-difference This paper provides causal estimates through DID analysis and robustness checks through Propensity Score Matching...

...Jing Wang; Morley Gunderson The data are not national representative; rather heavily weighted towards the less developed Central, Western and parts of the Eastern Regions of China. This may partially explain the absence of the theoretically expected adverse employment effect. Other related...

... leadership influences employees’ creativity in R&D teams in China, and the role of employee knowledge sharing and goal orientation. A survey was conducted on 331 professional technical engineers in R&D departments of 62 high-tech corporations in China. Hierarchical regression was used to model...

... is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: hnuyuanling@163.com 05 11 2014 09 05 2015 07 08 2015 26 08 2015 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only China Contextual performance Leader-member exchange...

... for professional staff over others. Originality/value – The authors use matched employer and employee cross-sectional data for Shanghai in China. To this point most studies that have examined the determinants of training use data for Europe or the USA. There are few studies of this sort for countries...

...Lin Xiu; Morley Gunderson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the gender earnings gap in China with a focus on the role of differences in the occupational distribution of males and females. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a procedure to model occupational...

...Vinod Mishra; Russell Smyth Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use cross-sectional data collected from six cities in China to examine the relationship between subjective wellbeing and male and female earnings and also to consider the contribution of differences in subjective wellbeing...

...Lin Xiu; Morley Gunderson Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to analyse how the male-female pay gap in China varies across the pay distribution and to provide evidence on the factors that influence that gap. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the Recentered Influence Function...

...Jing Wang; Morley Gunderson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in China. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the difference‐in‐difference methodology to estimate the employment and wage impacts of the minimum wage...

...Giuliana Parodi; Francesco Pastore; Corrado Giulietti; Guangjie Ning; Klaus F. Zimmermann Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of self‐employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a sample of migrant...

... is the capability and behaviour to propose or generate new (i.e. unique) and useful (i.e. satisfying some specific needs) work results (Sternberg and Lubart, 1998). Performance related pay Entrepreneurialism Innovation China Entrepreneurship refers to different forms of novelty in firms...

...Margaret Maurer‐Fazio; James W. Hughes; Dandan Zhang Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine observed differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and to decompose these differences into treatment and endowment effects. Design/methodology...

... process in China has altered the bargaining power of different groups of workers in the organisation as constituencies well positioned to exert institutional pressure. Compared to Maoist China, employers are becoming more dependent on employees with attributes considered desirable by the organisation...

...Bangcheng Liu; Ningyu Tang; Xiaomei Zhu Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate how generalisable the public service motivation (PSM) observed in Western society is to China and to examine the effects of public service motivation on job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach...