Zhike Lv

A panel data quantile regression analysis of the impact of corruption on tourism

Employing a data set of 62 nations over the period of 1998–2011, we adopt the quantile regression model to provide a broad description of the relationship between tourism demand and corruption across the demand distribution. Our results confirm some findings in the literature, and also provide some new conclusions. More specifically, our empirical results indicate that the nonlinear relationship between corruption and tourism demand is only significant at the 50th and 75th quantiles. Moreover, we also find a significant positive relationship between income and tourism demand across various quantiles, and the strength of the relationship is larger at lower demand levels. These findings may suggest that the existing level of demand is as important as other determinants of the tourism demand, and thereby this paper opens up new insights for national tourism administration policy-makers as well as for managerial purposes.

Psychological contract breach, high-performance work system and engagement: the mediated effect of person-organization fit

Abstract Based on social exchange theory, we developed and tested a mediated moderation model to investigate the effects of psychological contract breach (PCB), person–organization fit (P–O fit) and high-performance work system (HPWS) on employee engagement. Using a sample of 255 employees in China, our results revealed that PCB has significant negative effect on employee engagement, and P–O fit partially mediates this relationship. We further found that high levels of perceived HPWS aggravate not buffer the negative effect of PCB on employee engagement and P–O fit. In addition, the interaction of HPWS and PCB on employee engagement is mediated by P–O fit. Implications for the research and practices, limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

HPWS and unethical pro-organizational behavior: a moderated mediation model

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of employees’ perceptions of high-performance work systems (HPWS) on unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), and explores the mediating role of psychological ownership and the moderating role of moral identity.,The hypotheses were tested by using two-wave survey data that were collected from 306 employees in Chinese enterprises.,This study found that HPWS were positively related to UPB, and psychological ownership partially mediated this relationship. Results also revealed that moral identity negatively moderated the relationship between psychological ownership and UPB, and the indirect effect of HPWS on UPB via psychological ownership was weaker for employees high in moral identity.,The generalizability of the findings is limited, and the cross-sectional data cannot draw any clear causal inference among variables.,Managers should pay attention to the “dark side” of HPWS and incorporate ethics in the HPWS. Moreover, organizations should provide correct guidance for their pro-organizational behaviors to avoid employees doing bad things for good reasons.,This study first extends HPWS research to employee’s UPB, uncovers employees’ psychological ownership toward organizations as the pivotal mechanism underlying this relationship, and indicated moral identity can regulate employees unethical behavior.

Does Country Risk Promote the Informal Economy? A Cross-National Panel Data Estimation

Abstract This article investigates whether country risk plays an important role in determining the size of the informal economy. Using annualized panel data for a sample of 131 countries and regions covering 1999–2007, and controlling for a set of control variables, we find that country risk is a robust and significant determinant of the informal economy: a 1% increase in the country risk rating (decrease in the country risk) causes a 0.1% fall in the informal economy, and political risk has the largest effect, followed by economic risk. Moreover, the estimation results provide little evidence in support of an inverted-U relationship between urbanization and the share of the informal sector, which shed new light on the urbanization-the informal economy nexus.

The effect of economic sanctions on ethnic violence of target states: A panel data analysis

Abstract Economic sanctions have become a popular tool of statecraft in international politics. This paper makes an attempt to investigate the effect of economic sanctions on ethnic violence by using a sample of 46 target states over the period 1984–2008. Our results indicate that the imposition of economic sanctions has a deleterious influence on ethnic violence. Moreover, an interesting by-product finding of this paper is that we find a U-shaped relationship between income and ethnic violence, which shed new light on the income-ethnic violence nexus.