中小企业挖掘"第三利润源"

现代物流成为企业在降低物质消耗、提高劳动生产率之外的第三利润源。那么对于技术、资金和人才方面都处于劣势的中小企业来说，如何有效地加强物流管理，降低物流费用，成功挖掘这“第三利润源”就显得尤为重要。本文结合当前我国中小企业在物流运作方面存在的问题，从树立现代物流观念、加强物流信息化建设、采用第三方物流、重视物流人才的培养和建立物流战略联盟等几个方面进行了详细阐述，旨在为我国中小企业在物流运作方面提供参考，促使其快速、健康发展。     

"求同存异"构建长三角综合物流服务体系

从长三角物流市场供应与需求分析人手，结合区域产业发展，构建现代服务业前提下，提升以上海为中心的国际金融与国际航运建设为契机，区域物流企业如何实现自身发展的同时，满足区域物流市场的需求。通过针对区域产业布局、服务定位、发展分析，提出适合长三角区域综合物流发展，物流企业实现服务整体提升的发展策略。对目前区域物流企业的战略调整与发展方向的选择具有实践指导意义。     

让"黄金水道"流淌"黄金"--参观杜伊斯堡港随感

不久前，随团去德国科隆参加一年一度的欧洲物流年会，接触了欧洲最新的物流技术与设施。走马观花，看了欧洲的概念物流仓储设计，整体配送仓库的物流服务延伸模式，最新海港的“夹车”，集装箱快速装卸桥吊配套机械等。处处新意，引人入胜。     

B2C电子商务的"集成式"物流解决方案

无论商业交易的形式如何变化，物流的功能是永恒的。物流问题已经成为中国B2C电子商务发展的瓶颈。本文提出“集成式”物流解决方案，旨在为不同类型、不同层次、定位于不同细分市场的B2C电子商务企业提供一种可行的物流解决方案。     

"物流"与"利润"

从利润的基本构成入手进行物流与利润关系的分析，探讨了社会发展和科技进步所带来的物流管理模式变化对利润的影响，阐述表明了利润的来源不会因为企业工作重心的转移而发生变化，物流通过物质产品的时空转换创造价值从而构成社会总体利润水平的重要决定因素。     

"第三方物流"现况及发展趋势

“第三方物流”作为一种新兴的产业正在我国飞速发展，它是指向货主提供物流代理服务的各种行业。我国加入WTO之后，必须尽快提升服务水平，扩大服务规模并与国际物流接轨。当“第三方物流”正处于发展壮大之时，“第四方物流”又已横空出世。     

对在深圳建香港"内陆物流港"的探讨

“内陆物流港”是“内陆货运村”的扩展形式。本文分析了“内陆物流港”的基本功能、设立模式、选址策略等，认为深圳的龙华片区是建设香港的“内陆物流港”的最佳区位；论证了“内陆物流港”的五项功能设施：集装箱重箱堆场、普通仓库区、保税仓、海关监管集装箱空箱堆场和海关集中监管仓库区，其中后两项为探索性的设施形式。最后，阐述了在深圳建设香港“内陆物流港”的四项政策建议．     

军事物流"E体化"初探

针对现代战争军事物流保障的特点，提出了军事物流“E体化”的概念和理论内涵，探讨了军事物流“E体化”的目标和实现基础。     

国内物流企业应当重视和实施"走出去"的发展战略

通过对国内物流市场的分析，并借鉴西方物流跨国发展的经验和我国加入WTO所带来的机遇，说明了我国物流企业应重视和实施“走出去”的发展战略，成为有竞争实力的跨国物流企业。     

网络媒体对推广标准"物流术语"的作用

从媒体，尤其是网络媒体，对标准“物流术语”的推广与使用中的作用和问题的分析出发，探讨利用网络媒体，促进国家标准“物流术语”的推广与使用途径。     

New Pedagogy and New Content: The Case of Statistics

Statistical education now takes place in a new social context. It is influenced by a movement to reform the teaching of the mathematical sciences in general. At the same time, the changing nature of our discipline demands revised content for introductory instruction, and technology strongly influences both what we teach and how we teach. The case for substantial change in statistics instruction is built on strong synergies between content, pedagogy, and technology. Statisticians who teach beginners should become more familiar with research on teaching and learning and with changes in educational technology. The spirit of contemporary introductions to statistics should be very different from the traditional emphasis on lectures and on probability and inference.     

Social exclusion and labour market transitions: a multi-state multi-spell analysis using the BHPS

In this empirical paper, we assess how social exclusion arises in the context of labour market transition behaviour. We estimate a multi-state multi-spell competing risks model and identify five states: high skilled employment, intermediate skilled employment, low skilled employment, unemployment and out-of-the-labour market. Using data from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we show that a substantial number of workers were trapped in a vicious circle of low-skilled employment, unemployment and inactivity in the 1990s. Workers who are part of the so-called flexible workforce are more likely to suffer social exclusion.     

“双转移”趋势与城镇化模式转型

基于近年来产业梯度转移加速及劳动力回流中西部就近务工的趋势,指出中国的城镇化应当重视发挥劳动力的驱动作用,加大对人力资本的推动力度及城市公共服务领域的投入。中西部要立足于延续和扩大劳动力比较优势,以承接、发展劳动密集型制造业与传统服务业来加快城镇化;东部应重点发展现代服务业与高附加值产业,以产业结构升级提升城镇化质量,最终形成我国"雁阵模式"的工业化与城镇化格局。当前重点是将中西部中小城市快速扩张为100万人口以上的大城市,发挥其在分散型城市群战略中承上启下的集聚效应与辐射作用。同时指出应积极探索户籍、社保、住房制度改革,推进农民工"市民化"及人口实质性城镇化的进程。     

学校德育有效性的历史文化背景分析

由于社会具体环境的变化和教育过于功利化的趋向,当前学校德育已经逐渐脱离生活实际而流于空洞的道德说教。本文通过对这种现状的具体分析,提出学校德育应根据已经变化的社会具体环境,把传统的价值观中适应于现状的积极部分加以阐发,结合学生切身的生活经验开展具有社会主义特色的德育,以体现学校德育对于促进学生道德认知与道德行为的有效性。     

Insurance and climate-driven extreme events

We investigate how insurance affects agents’ decisions when being faced by endogenous, climate-driven extreme events. This is not only important in order to understand how the possibility of insurance augments mitigation and saving decisions, but it also improves our understanding of how insurance should be provided. Since there are no studies as of now that rely on such an integrated approach, we extend the literature along two lines. Firstly, we develop a neoclassical growth framework with endogenous extreme events and an insurance sector. Secondly, we introduce a simulation method that allows us to explicitly take these extreme events into account and which yields additional numerical insights. In doing so we can fully characterize and quantify the impact of different insurance policies for mitigation and economic growth decisions.Our analytical results and computational experiments show that (i) transparency of the insurance sector is the decisive requisite for abatement activities, implying substantial policy opportunities; (ii) a decentralized economy will under-invest in abatement without adequate policy interventions; (iii) precautionary beliefs on the frequency of extreme events lead to more sustainability; (iv) a social security system which prices insurance fairly is preferable to an insurance industry which provides insurance with an overhead.     

社保基金监管存在的问题

在我国努力创建建设社会主义和谐社会的大背景之下,社保基金问题不仅影响到社会保障制度自身的健康发展,也直接影响经济的发展和社会的稳定。然而在我国许多地方却发生社保基金被违规挪用、侵占甚至贪污的现象,这不得不让人开始正视社保基金的监管问题。     

Does comprehensive education work for the long-term unemployed?

In this paper we evaluate the effects of comprehensive adult education on wage earnings of long-term unemployed, an essentially unexplored issue. We use register data pertaining to a large sample of long-term unemployed in Sweden who enrolled in upper secondary comprehensive adult education. Estimates with propensity score matching indicate that more than one semester of study results in substantial increases in post program annual earnings for both males and females. According to our rough calculations, the social benefits of offering these individuals comprehensive education surpass the costs within five to seven years.     

Citizens’ e-participation on agenda setting in local governance: Do individual social capital and e-participation management matter?

Although a growing body of literature has touted e-participation as a means of facilitating greater citizen participation in policy decision-making processes, little is known about the driving forces behind citizens’ use of e-participation. Based on a literature review of social capital and citizen participation, this study develops and tests a model proposing that three dimensions of social capital and three dimensions of citizen participation management should be positively associated with e-participation in agenda setting. Using data from a Korean e-participation survey conducted in 2009, we found that citizens tend to be more active e-participants when they have greater trust in government and are weakly tied to offline social groups. We also found that citizen participants’ perception of government responsiveness to their input can facilitate their e-participation. The study findings imply that local governments should pay more attention to the function of public trust in local government and provide quality feedback in response to citizen input. They should also be sensitive to how the social factors of e-participants can facilitate involvement in agenda setting.     

The HR role in corporate social responsibility and sustainability: A boundary‐shifting literature review

Although research on human and social sustainability has flourished in the past decade, the role that human resource management departments play (or should play) in facilitating more socially responsible and sustainable organizations remains unclear. In practice, this lack of clarity is due to the multiple features and dimensions of potential HR contributions to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability (CS), as well as widespread failure to integrate HR and CSR functions. Theoretically, the absence of a framework that articulates the HR role in CSR and CS and the substantial separation between HRM and CSR/CS studies among academics act as a reinforcing mechanism. The present study contributes to the growing research on this topic, presenting a framework and a typology to classify the potential HR roles in CSR and CS and comprehensively reviewing the literature at the intersection of HR with CSR and CS. The results of the review provide a broader perspective on the role HR might play in CSR and CS as well as its impact beyond organizational boundaries.     

Flexible Working Hours, Family Responsibilities, and Female Self-Employment

ABSTRACT Using cross-sectional data from the Contingent Work Survey of the February 1995 Current Population Survey, we present direct evidence that there are substantial gender differences in the reasons why individuals become self-employed. In particular, women–especially women with young children–are more likely than men to cite flexibility of schedule and family-related reasons for becoming self-employed. Men's reasons for becoming self-employed show little association with their parental status. Our findings suggest that employers should be encouraged to offer working conditions that are more friendly to workers whose family obligations conflict with traditional, forty-hour-per-week jobs.