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This paper examines the relationship between government-guided fund (GGF) investment and corporate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance using China's A-share companies that received GGFs from 2013 to 2022. Our analysis indicates a significant negative correlation between GGFs holdings and ESG performance, with one period lagged effect. This negative correlation is pronounced for non-state-owned enterprises but insignificant for state-owned enterprises. For state-owned enterprises, robust regional economic development and stringent environmental regulations mitigate the negative GGF correlation. This study provides new insights into the relation of GGFs with corporate sustainability.
This paper examines the relationship between government-guided fund (GGF) investment and corporate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance using China's A-share companies that received GGFs from 2013 to 2022. Our analysis indicates a significant negative correlation between GGFs holdings and ESG performance, with one period lagged effect. This negative correlation is pronounced for non-state-owned enterprises but insignificant for state-owned enterprises. For state-owned enterprises, robust regional economic development and stringent environmental regulations mitigate the negative GGF correlation. This study provides new insights into the relation of GGFs with corporate sustainability.
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This study demonstrates that extreme temperatures disproportionately affect women’s employment in China’s manufacturing sector. Using matched data from county-level weather records and industrial enterprise surveys, we find that a one-percentage-point increase in extreme temperature exposure reduces female employment share by 4.75% points. Mechanism analysis reveals that this relationship is primarily driven by firms’ hiring decisions based on both perceived and actual gender differences in weather-related productivity. Our findings contribute to the literature by providing novel evidence on how indoor working conditions in manufacturing can perpetuate gender-based labour market disparities.
关键词：
Life cycle;Emerging technology;Knowledge attributes;Innovation network evolution;TERGM
摘要：
Purpose
This study aims to explore the factors influencing the evolution of emerging technology innovation network (ETIN) in combination with the key attributes and life cycle of emerging technologies, particularly the impact of multiple knowledge attributes and technology life cycle on the ETIN evolution.
Design/methodology/approach
This study collects 5G patent data and their citation information from the Derwent Innovations Index to construct a 5G technology innovation network (5GIN) as a sample network and conducts an empirical analysis of the 5GIN using the temporal exponential random graph model (TERGM).
Findings
The results indicate that during the 5GIN evolution, the network scale continues to expand and exhibits increasingly significant core-periphery structure, scale-free characteristic, small-world characteristic and community structure. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the multiple knowledge attributes based on the key attributes of emerging technologies, including knowledge novelty, coherence, growth and impact, have a significant positive influence on the ETIN evolution. Meanwhile, the temporal evolution of ETIN is also found to be correlated with the life cycle of emerging technologies.
Originality/value
This study extends the exploration of emerging technology research from a complex network perspective, providing a more realistic explanatory framework for the factors influencing ETIN evolution. It further highlights the important role that multiple knowledge attributes and the technology life cycle play within this framework.
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China’s rapid urbanization has significantly impacted the environment, escalating resource, energy, and material consumption. Sustainable urban development has become a critical issue, with eco-efficiency emerging as a key metric for its assessment. This study employs eco-efficiency analysis, incorporating environmental contamination as an undesirable output, using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and a modified super-efficiency model for ranking cities. Empirical research was conducted on 30 Chinese provincial capital cities using real-world data. Results reveal that while many cities are eco-efficient, inefficiency is concentrated in underdeveloped regions of the southwest and northwest. Conversely, some eco-efficient cities exhibit high levels of pollution and intensive resource use, including land, energy, and water. The modified ranking methodology identified Yinchuan, Lanzhou, and Guiyang as the least eco-efficient cities, while Haikou, Fuzhou, and Beijing ranked as the top performers. The study highlights the need to reform the GDP-oriented development model and evaluation systems, continually upgrade industrial structures, and prevent the migration of heavy industries from more developed to less developed regions. These findings provide actionable insights for policymakers to balance urban growth with environmental sustainability.
China’s rapid urbanization has significantly impacted the environment, escalating resource, energy, and material consumption. Sustainable urban development has become a critical issue, with eco-efficiency emerging as a key metric for its assessment. This study employs eco-efficiency analysis, incorporating environmental contamination as an undesirable output, using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and a modified super-efficiency model for ranking cities. Empirical research was conducted on 30 Chinese provincial capital cities using real-world data. Results reveal that while many cities are eco-efficient, inefficiency is concentrated in underdeveloped regions of the southwest and northwest. Conversely, some eco-efficient cities exhibit high levels of pollution and intensive resource use, including land, energy, and water. The modified ranking methodology identified Yinchuan, Lanzhou, and Guiyang as the least eco-efficient cities, while Haikou, Fuzhou, and Beijing ranked as the top performers. The study highlights the need to reform the GDP-oriented development model and evaluation systems, continually upgrade industrial structures, and prevent the migration of heavy industries from more developed to less developed regions. These findings provide actionable insights for policymakers to balance urban growth with environmental sustainability.
期刊：
ENERGY STRATEGY REVIEWS,2024年56:101575 ISSN：2211-467X
通讯作者：
Feng, C
作者机构：
[Xu, Tiancheng] Wuhan Polytech Univ, Sch Econ, Wuhan 430048, Hubei, Peoples R China.;[Feng, C; Feng, Chun] Guangzhou Xinhua Univ, Sch Econ & Trade, Guangzhou 510520, Guangdong, Peoples R China.;[Guluzada, Esmira] Azerbaijan State Univ Econ UNEC, Baku, Azerbaijan.;[Chao, Chen] Nanjing Normal Univ, Nanjing, Peoples R China.
通讯机构：
[Feng, C ] G;Guangzhou Xinhua Univ, Sch Econ & Trade, Guangzhou 510520, Guangdong, Peoples R China.
关键词：
Environmental degradation;Renewable energy;Fossil fuel consumption;Gold prices;Sustainable development
摘要：
Rapid industrialization in recently industrialized countries (NICs) has exacerbated environmental degradation, raising urgent concerns about how energy consumption, gold prices, and fossil fuel prices contribute to this growing issue. This study aims to evaluate the asymmetric relationships between these factors and environmental degradation across 10 NICs, including Brazil, India, South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, South Africa, Malaysia, and the Philippines, from 1995 to 2023. Using the CS-ARDL model, our study demonstrates that while energy costs and renewable energy consumption reduce environmental degradation, gold prices and fossil fuel consumption significantly increase ecological harm. Additionally, the study employs FGLS, CS-DL, AMG, and Driscoll-Kray to verify the robustness of these findings. Notably, the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis holds true in these economies. Key results show that a 1 % increase in renewable energy use decreases emissions by 0.7 %, while a 1 % rise in gold prices correlates with a 0.5 % increase in pollution levels. These findings underscore the need for NICs to implement green investments, promote renewable energy, and initiate structural reforms to ensure sustainable development.
Rapid industrialization in recently industrialized countries (NICs) has exacerbated environmental degradation, raising urgent concerns about how energy consumption, gold prices, and fossil fuel prices contribute to this growing issue. This study aims to evaluate the asymmetric relationships between these factors and environmental degradation across 10 NICs, including Brazil, India, South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, South Africa, Malaysia, and the Philippines, from 1995 to 2023. Using the CS-ARDL model, our study demonstrates that while energy costs and renewable energy consumption reduce environmental degradation, gold prices and fossil fuel consumption significantly increase ecological harm. Additionally, the study employs FGLS, CS-DL, AMG, and Driscoll-Kray to verify the robustness of these findings. Notably, the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis holds true in these economies. Key results show that a 1 % increase in renewable energy use decreases emissions by 0.7 %, while a 1 % rise in gold prices correlates with a 0.5 % increase in pollution levels. These findings underscore the need for NICs to implement green investments, promote renewable energy, and initiate structural reforms to ensure sustainable development.
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In this study, we use a dataset collected from eBay to analyze buyers’ negative feedback ratings and associated textual comments. By using text mining and sentiment analysis, we identify seven key reasons why buyers post negative ratings: communication problems, shipping issues, product defects, payment refund problems, customer service issues, fraud, and product packaging. These seven reasons can be classified into three categories: (1) sellers’ malicious fraudulence toward buyers, (2) factors likely under the control of sellers, and (3) factors not likely under the control of sellers. Drawing on these categories, we discuss how sellers can effectively reduce the likelihood that buyers post negative ratings. The most important things sellers can do to avoid negative ratings are to improve communications with buyers and to handle product shipping issues properly. In addition to posting the reasons for their negative ratings of sellers, the textual comments associated with negative feedback ratings may also include direct denouncements of sellers, such as buyers explicitly claiming a seller is a liar and warning other buyers to be cautious of the seller. We collectively call these actions buyers’ denouncements against sellers. These denouncements have significant negative impacts on sellers’ reputations. In this study, we use correlation analysis and logistic regression to investigate the factors that motivate buyers to denounce sellers. We find that, of the three categories of reasons why buyers post negative ratings, sellers’ malicious fraudulence toward buyers and factors likely under the control of sellers are more likely to lead to buyers’ denouncements of sellers, while factors not likely under the control of sellers are not likely to lead to buyers’ denouncements of sellers. In addition, buyers’ strong negative sentiment is also more likely to lead to their denouncement of sellers. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed.
作者机构：
[Li, Yihao; Chen, Hao] Dongshin Univ, Gen Grad Sch, Naju, Jeollanamdo, South Korea.;[Zhao, Weifeng; Zhang, TPM; Zhang, Tingpimei; Chen, Hao; Xu, Wei] Wuhan Polytech Univ, Food & Hlth Res Ctr, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.;[Zhao, Weifeng; Zhang, TPM; Zhang, Tingpimei; Xu, Wei] Wuhan Polytech Univ, Sch Econ, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.;[Zhao, Weifeng; Zhang, TPM; Zhang, Tingpimei; Xu, Wei] Wuhan Polytech Univ, Ctr Counyt Econ Dev Res Hubei, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
通讯机构：
[Zhang, TPM ] W;Wuhan Polytech Univ, Food & Hlth Res Ctr, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.;Wuhan Polytech Univ, Sch Econ, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.;Wuhan Polytech Univ, Ctr Counyt Econ Dev Res Hubei, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
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The "Internet Plus" era has established a closer connection between sports and individuals. This study used data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies and focused on the middle- and younger-aged population aged 15 to 59 years. Employing a negative binomial regression model, this study empirically analyzed the impact of Internet use on physical exercise and its internal mechanisms among this population. The findings revealed that (1) Internet use significantly promoted physical exercise in the middle- and younger-aged population, with the frequency of physical exercise increasing to 1.549 times the original value; (2) The positive effects of the internet on physical exercise outweighed the negative effects, with online learning and entertainment enhancing physical exercise and online socialization limiting it. Specifically, online learning and entertainment increased the frequency of physical exercise among the middle- and younger-aged population by 0.063 and 0.018, respectively. Online socialization reduced the frequency by 0.023; and (3) The influence of internet use on physical exercise varies; significantly, it positively affects the exercise frequency among individuals over 35 years old and shows a positive correlation with employment status, including both employed individuals and those out of the labor market. The positive role of Internet use in encouraging physical exercise participation among the middle- and young-aged groups should be valued and enhanced.
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Whether children who inherit social advantages or those who exhibit motivated hard work are more likely to attain superior well-being over time remains a critical question, yet has received little empirical examination. This paper aims to provide new evidence from China on this issue by deploying a natural experiment research design. The empirical analysis explores the link between early-life experiences shaped by parental family background and children’s long-term well-being outcome. Using household survey data from China, we find that children born with social advantages tend to complete more years of education in rural areas but fewer years in urban areas compared to their counterparts. Our results are robust to changing the cohort selection, outcome variables, and sources of the analytical sample.
作者机构：
[Hu, Sumin] Suzhou Univ Sci & Technol, Business Sch, Suzhou, Peoples R China.;[Wu, Haoqiang] Wuhan Polytech Univ, Sch Econ, Wuhan 430040, Peoples R China.
通讯机构：
[Haoqiang Wu] S;School of Economics, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
关键词：
Media pressure;green technology innovation;environmental sustainability;internal governance
摘要：
This paper has exaimed the causal effect between media pressure and corporate green innovation through the micro-perspective of internal governance. We find that media pressure is supposed to effectively improve the enterprise green technology innovation, ownership concentration, independent directors and salary incentives have a significant positive U-shaped regulatory effect on the relationship between media pressure and enterprise green technology innovation. CEO duality and equity incentives are significantly moderating the relationship between media pressure and corporate green technology innovation. As for property heterogeneity, media pressure effectively improves the enterprises green innovation performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-state-owned enterprises (Non-SOEs). Specifically, the moderating effect of internal governance elements is consistent with the baseline results in the Non-SOEs sample, while ownership concentration inverted U-shape regulates this process and other internal governance elements are consistent with the baseline results and in the SOEs sample.
摘要：
核心素养是辅导员专业化发展的灵魂和精髓,是提升思想政治教育的基本遵循。但目前在高校辅导员核心素养培育中仍存在核心素养认知有待加强、职业发展机制亟待完善和政治素养水平需进一步提升等现实困境。为加快辅导员核心素养的培育,高校...展开更多 核心素养是辅导员专业化发展的灵魂和精髓,是提升思想政治教育的基本遵循。但目前在高校辅导员核心素养培育中仍存在核心素养认知有待加强、职业发展机制亟待完善和政治素养水平需进一步提升等现实困境。为加快辅导员核心素养的培育,高校需要搭建交流平台、完善职称评聘、强化理论学习,以此推动新时代思想政治教育的创新发展。Core competencies are the soul and essence of the professional development of college counselors, and they are the fundamental principles for improving ideological and political education. However, there are still some realistic dilemmas in the cultivation of core competencies of college counselors, such as the need to strengthen the understanding of core competencies, the urgent need to improve the career development mechanism, and the need to further improve the level of political literacy. In order to accelerate the cultivation of core competencies of counselors, universities need to build communication platforms, improve the supporting evaluation and employment system, and strengthen theoretical learning, so as to promote the innovative development of ideological and political education in the new era.收起
通讯机构：
[Zhou, YW ] H;Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Econ, Luoyu Rd 1037, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China.
关键词：
School consolidation;education quality;human capital;China;I21;J24;O15
摘要：
This study investigates the long-term effects of school consolidation on human capital formation. We explore the implementation of a large-scale primary school consolidation programme in rural China aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of education. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that exposure to the programme significantly increases the number of years of schooling completed by rural children. The effect changes with exposure duration to the RPSC programme and is stronger for children from areas with low economic development, areas with low educational inputs, and families with low parental education. Moreover, we provide evidence that improvements in input-based and output-based school quality are important mechanisms by which the programme affects educational attainment. Finally, the results of further analysis alert us to the adverse effects of the programme on noncognitive skills such as agreeableness and emotional stability, as well as on labour supply time in adulthood.
关键词：
Industrial intelligentization;Industrial structure;Industrial structure supererogation;Industrial structure rationalization;Industrial elements synergy
摘要：
Based on the provincial panel data from 2010 to 2019, taking industrial robots as proxy variables, this paper analyzes the impact of industrial intelligence on industrial structure change through constructing the indicators of optimization, rationalization and synergy of industrial structure and agriculture upgrading, industry upgrading, and service upgrading. Results show that the industrial intelligence has significant effect on the quantity and quality of industrial structure upgrading and the industrial elements synergy, but has no positive effect on the rationalization of industrial structure. Within the industry, it has significantly promoted the upgrading of the automobile industry and the traditional manufacturing industry. It has significantly promoted the transformation of producer services and consumer services, but has no significant impact on the upgrading of agriculture. Further mechanism tests confirm that productivity improvement, capital deepening, labor structure upgrading, industrial spillover and demand traction play mediating roles. Based on the research, policy suggestions are put forward to promote industrial transformation and upgrading.
Based on the provincial panel data from 2010 to 2019, taking industrial robots as proxy variables, this paper analyzes the impact of industrial intelligence on industrial structure change through constructing the indicators of optimization, rationalization and synergy of industrial structure and agriculture upgrading, industry upgrading, and service upgrading. Results show that the industrial intelligence has significant effect on the quantity and quality of industrial structure upgrading and the industrial elements synergy, but has no positive effect on the rationalization of industrial structure. Within the industry, it has significantly promoted the upgrading of the automobile industry and the traditional manufacturing industry. It has significantly promoted the transformation of producer services and consumer services, but has no significant impact on the upgrading of agriculture. Further mechanism tests confirm that productivity improvement, capital deepening, labor structure upgrading, industrial spillover and demand traction play mediating roles. Based on the research, policy suggestions are put forward to promote industrial transformation and upgrading.
