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Missing the China factor: evidence from Brazil and Mexico 忽略了中国因素:来自巴西和墨西哥的证据

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1933767

Marco Cepik, Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos, Rafael R. Ioris

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引用次数: 3

China’s soft power and US public opinion 中国软实力与美国舆论

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1933766

Yao‐Yuan Yeh, Charles K. S. Wu, Wei-hao Huang

引用次数: 3

Engaging the dragon: UK government documents on doing business with China 与中国龙接触:英国政府与中国做生意的文件

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-06-26 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1933770

Yue Ming, M. Plouffe

引用次数: 1

Economic relations and the public image of China in Latin America: a cross-country time-series analysis 拉美经济关系与中国公众形象的跨国时间序列分析

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1914414

Yi Feng, Qingjie Zeng

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引用次数: 3

US economic and trade sanctions against China: A loss-loss confrontation 美国对中国的经贸制裁：一场损失惨重的对抗

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-06-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195

Liang Guo, Sizhu Wang, Nicole Z. Xu

{"title":"US economic and trade sanctions against China: A loss-loss confrontation","authors":"Liang Guo, Sizhu Wang, Nicole Z. Xu","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The economic and trade sanctions implemented by the United States (US) against China have lasted for a few decades and the structural imbalance of the US–China trade relationship has ultimately been escalated to a trade war recently. We examine the economic impacts of US sanctions against China on both sponsor and target countries during the last 20 years. We find that such impacts have significantly changed over time. On one hand, US economic sanctions have gradually extended from China’s labour-intensive to high value-added products and they have largely slowed down China’s trade growth for the last decade. On the other hand, US consumers and businesses have faced higher prices and production costs for Chinese imports (or import substitutes) in the wake of the increasing US trade sanctions, leading to great deadweight losses to the sponsor country. In addition, US economic and trade sanctions against China have largely impacted other economies involved in US–China trade as well. The intermediary status of the Hong Kong SAR has been greatly challenged. Overall, US economic and trade sanctions have caused pain on both China and the US, but their impact on China (the target country) has been largely weakened.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49280417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Urban wage inequality: The reform of state-owned enterprises in China’s great transition 城市工资不平等：中国大转型中的国企改革

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-05-17 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1914417

Shiyu Sun, Xixi Chu, Xiangbo Liu

{"title":"Urban wage inequality: The reform of state-owned enterprises in China’s great transition","authors":"Shiyu Sun, Xixi Chu, Xiangbo Liu","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1914417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1914417","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Along with the further reforms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), urban China has experienced an evident increase in wage inequality. Using provincial-level data for the period 1993–2013 and individual-level data from five waves of the China Household Income Project from 1988 to 2013, this paper investigates how the SOE reform affects wage distribution in urban China by considering three mechanisms: wage determination, ownership structure and institutional segmentation. The results of this study show that overall inequality increased with the reduction of SOEs’ share in the economy. Moreover, through a detailed Oaxaca–Blinder re-centred influence function decomposition, this experiment obtains consistent and robust results. Based on the theory of soft budget constraint, this study demonstrates that the increase in urban wage inequality has been mainly caused by wage structure effects. Since the SOE reform in the 1980s, the wage determination mechanism has changed with the increase in the return of the labour force to education. During this period, institutional segmentation was of less significance in explaining the wage gap between SOEs and non-SOEs. Furthermore, the accelerating ageing process of China’s population had no significant effects on the trajectory of urban wage inequality throughout this period.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1914417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46489609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

The path, value and limits of the Confucius Institute in carrying out public diplomacy 孔子学院开展公共外交的路径、价值与局限

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1914416

Yanwei Wang, Chinenye Gerlof Uzodinma, Caoyuan Niu

{"title":"The path, value and limits of the Confucius Institute in carrying out public diplomacy","authors":"Yanwei Wang, Chinenye Gerlof Uzodinma, Caoyuan Niu","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1914416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1914416","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract On the basis of Chinese language teaching and cultural communication activities, the Confucius Institute carries out a variety of cultural exchange activities between China and the host country, which has become an effective way for China to carry out public diplomacy and participate in global cultural governance. By analysing the concepts of public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, people-to-people exchange and cultural governance, this paper summarises three typical paths of Confucius Institutes in carrying out public diplomacy: ‘from the government to foreign nationals’, ‘from the government to Chinese citizens and then to foreign nationals’, and ‘from the government to foreign nationals and then to foreign nationals’. The value of the Confucius Institute in carrying out public diplomacy is reflected on the level of national diplomacy, international exchange and global governance. Furthermore, the capability of the Confucius Institute as a language and cultural communication institution initiated by China and in cooperation with other countries in carrying out public diplomacy is limited. This limitation, on one hand, originates from the nature of the Confucius Institute as a language and cultural communication organisation, and on the other hand, is related to the difficulties and challenges that China faces in its participation in global governance. Public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy are based on national interests. They also transcend national interests and, furthermore, become a way for a country to actively participate in global cultural governance. The experience of and challenges faced by the Confucius Institute can have important implications for China in participating in global cultural governance.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1914416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44514591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

The intention of banks to adopt green banking in an emerging market: the employees’ perspective 银行在新兴市场采用绿色银行的意图：员工视角

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-03-30 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621

Eugene Okyere-Kwakye, Khalil Md Nor

{"title":"The intention of banks to adopt green banking in an emerging market: the employees’ perspective","authors":"Eugene Okyere-Kwakye, Khalil Md Nor","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Green banking is a comparatively new development in the financial world. It is a form of banking that considers the social and environmental impacts of banking activities. Most studies on green banking focussed on customers, management, and other stakeholders without considering the perspective of employees, whose daily work is normally affected. To fill in the gap, the primary aim of this study is to assess factors affecting the intention of banks to adopt green banking from the perspective of employees. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 94 employees at selected banks in Koforidua, the eastern region of Ghana. Multiple regression was used to analyse the data. The study finds a significantly positive relationship between management support and intention of banks to adopt green banking. However, pressures from competitors and customers are found not to have a significant impact on banks’ intention to adopt green banking. While these results are unexpected and disappointing, they provide important insights in the context that changing initiatives from the perspective of common employees are internally driven instead of externally driven. This suggests the importance of management’s role in facilitating green banking initiatives.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42584578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

The political economy of city diplomacy 城市外交的政治经济学

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-03-26 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1899622

J. Manfredi-Sánchez

引用次数: 5

The political economy of climate change: the impasse and way out 气候变化的政治经济学:僵局与出路

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1885780

Fusheng Xie, Han Cheng

引用次数: 4