Currently, a few scholars have studied the spillover effects of abusive supervision from third parties’ perspective. However, these limited researches mainly focus on third parties’ explicit behavior response to peer abusive supervision, ignoring their implicit reactions (e.g., silence) and the emotional mechanism among it. To fill the above gaps, drawing on affective events theory, we construct a theoretical model that explains the relationship among peer abusive supervision, third parties’ workplace anxiety, third parties’ silence, and third parties’ core self-evaluation. Multi-wave data from 283 front-line employees (57% male and 43% female; 57.2% are 30 years old and below, 31.1% are 31–40 years old and 11.7% are over 40 years old), who come from eight real estate and insurance companies in China, were used to support our framework. In particular, our empirical results indicated that peer abusive supervision was positively related to third parties’ silence, among which workplace anxiety played a partial mediating role. In addition, third parties’ core self-evaluation moderated the relationship between peer abusive supervision and silence, meanwhile, the mediating role of workplace anxiety. Specifically, the effect of peer abusive supervision on workplace anxiety, and the mediating effect of workplace anxiety, was weaker when the third parties’ core self-evaluation was higher rather than lower. The results contribute to both theory and practice.

The paper explores the changes in the determinants of interprovincial inequality in China during the period of 2000 to 2017 by way of bi-dimensional decomposition method. The method integrates two inequality decompositions by both regional groups and gross regional product components, helping us to evaluate the contributions of gross regional product components to both within-region and between-region inequalities, and to overall interprovincial inequality. It is found that the overall inequality exhibited a declining trend and the “Western Development Strategy” in Region 3 during the second sub-period from 2005 to 2012 contributed mostly to the decrease in interprovincial inequality. Moreover, as 57.3 percent of the interprovincial inequality is accounted for by the between-region inequality component, more preferential policies in terms of tax deduction, transfer payments, foreign trade promotion and the like should be issued to the less developed interior provinces in Region 2 and Region 3.

The paper explores life value assessment methods in China from both the historical and modern perspectives. The historical perspective includes the death penalty ransom approach and government pricing approach, while the modern perspective contains the human capital method and willingness-to-pay method. The human capital method measures the economic value created by people and uses it as their life assessment value, and the willingness-to-pay method evaluates peoples’ life value indirectly through the trade-off between the death risk and benefit. The paper then puts forward improvement ideas for the two modern life value assessment models and proposes possible future research directions, meanwhile providing a reference for such practical issues as compensation policymaking for industrial injuries or deaths for the sustainable development of emerging countries.