Urban Authorities and Economic Sectors

Feeling Good About the Iron Rice Bowl: Economic Sectors and Happiness in Post-Reform Urban China

Situated in China’s market transition, this study examines the relationship between economic sectors and individuals’ happiness in post-reform urban China. Using datasets from the Chinese General Social Surveys 2003, 2006 and 2008, we find that workers in the state sector enjoy a subjective premium in well-being – reporting significantly higher levels of happiness than their counterparts in the...

Analysis of Interdependencies Between Italy's Economic Sectors

The infrastructure sectors of developed countries have direct and indirect interdependencies. These interdependencies make national infrastructures extremely prone to the cascading effects of perturbations or failures. A negative event that reduces the operability of one infrastructure sector rapidly spreads to other sectors and back to the original sector in a feedback loop, amplifying the neg...

Comparing Turnover Drivers: Differences and Similarities in Two Economic Sectors

In this study employee turnover drivers in two organizations from different economic sectors are compared. A mixed method design, comprising of a questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews and focus groups discussions, was used to collect data from two stratified sample of participants and key informants in a public and a private sector organization. Organizational documents were mined fo...

An Approach For Investment Allocation Among Alterative Economic Sectors

Expropriation risk, investment decisions and economic sectors ¬リニ

a r t i c l e i n f o We build a Real Options model to assess the importance of private provision and the impact of expropriation risk on investment timing, business values, governmental costs and social welfare. We consider two types of businesses (essential and non-essential) and two stages (operating businesses and investment opportunities) and answer questions regarding three main topics: t...