Labor‐Market Institutions and Long‐Term Effects of Youth Unemployment

Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers’ subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries during the 1960–2010 periods reveals that a worker who experiences a 1 percentage point higher unemployment rate while the worker is 16–24 years old has a 0.14 percentage point higher unemployment rate at ages 25–29 years and 0.03 percentage points higher at ages 30–34 years. The persistence of this negative effect is stronger in countries with stricter employment protection legislation. A composite index for labor‐market rigidity is constructed and the index is shown to have positive correlation with the persistence. Moderating macroeconomic fluctuations is more important in countries that have more persistent labor‐market entry effects on subsequent outcomes.     

Free entry in successive oligopolies

In the present paper, we propose an extension of Spengler's (1950) analysis of successive oligopolies, to study the effects of entry in the downstream and upstream markets. Free entry is analyzed using replica economies à la Debreu and Scarf (1963) . We find that free entry may have different effects in the upstream and in the downstream market. Namely, the usual convergence of the price to the corresponding marginal cost only occurs in the downstream market.     

英语口语教学的制约因素及教学策略研究

英语口语水平的高低是衡量英语学习者语言综合水平的重要体现。在英语教学中,教师和学生都觉得困难得就是口语,教师觉得学生的口语水平不尽如意,怎么训练也提高不快,学生则认为想说的话就是无法用英语流畅的表达出来。本文就影响英语口语进程的障碍因素加以研究,并就如何清除口语障碍提出相应的策略。     

二手房交易中中介机构的信息屏障及其破解对策

目前房地产中介公司已成为二手房交易的主要渠道,许多中介公司利用买卖主体的信息不对称,有意制造信息屏障,获取额外收益。了解中介公司设置信息屏障的方式方法十分必要,它可以帮助买卖主体有效规避交易风险,减少不必要的经济损失。     

Mid-America Parts Company: An E-Commerce Case Study of a Successful International Small-Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME)

ABSTRACT

Mid-America Parts Company (MAPC) is a small U.S. firm located in the Midwest specializing in supplying heavy earthmoving equipment parts worldwide. In the mid-1990s the company began to experience challenges maintaining quality assurance while meeting a broad base of global customer parts needs at a profitable level. In the later half of the 1990s, the company initiated the use of a computer-based system to supply parts more efficiently to their customers. After numerous iterations, in 2000, Mid-America Parts Company finally established a customer data entry system that ensured ease of customer use while maintaining quality assurance. An important outcome of these efforts was enhanced customer relationships. This case study describes the company as it has successfully progressed along that path and identifies current issues yet to be addressed including the networking of both suppliers and customers. This paper includes questions related to reinforcing global customer relationship management (CRM) while pressing for the needs of efficiency gained from advanced computer technology. The information has been collected through site visits (2003 and 2004) in addition to traditional information-gathering methods. Although the company name and names of individuals have been changed, the specifics of the case are true as concerns the actual experience of this small-medium-sized enterprise (SME).     

Entry regulation and social welfare with an integer problem

This paper elaborates on Salop (1979) who showed that the number of firms at free-entry equilibrium is excessive from the viewpoint of social welfare (excess-entry theorem). This paper considers an integer problem of the number of firms entering the market. We find that the excess-entry theorem does not hold true if the marginal production cost is increasing, while it holds true if the marginal production cost is constant. This result warns against the use of the excess-entry theorem for rationalizing entry regulation such as the notorious Japanese Large-Scaled Retail Act restricting the new entry of retailers.     

高职高专商务英语听力教学探讨

结合当前社会需求和高职高专商务英语听力教学的特点,探讨了如何提高商务英语听力教学质量并提出了相应的教学改进措施。     

信息不对称对信贷市场结构的影响

文章通过考察信息不对称在多个时期的空间竞争模型中对信贷市场结构均衡的决定作用，特别是对银行进入和退出信贷市场的内生作用，证明信息不对称会对潜在的市场参与者造成市场壁垒——信息壁垒，从而信贷市场的整体竞争程度竞争程度受到抑制。     

The Genesis of Relationships

SUMMARY

Productive relationships between a company and its customers are often the result of positive relationships between the company and its boundary spanning employees. The career entry transition marks the beginning of these interpersonal relationships, which have a significant impact on marketing performance. Using a sample of newly hired boundary spanning employees, we examine the influence of individual difference factors on boundary spanners' appraisals of the career entry transition. Significant relationships are found between boundary spanners' positive and negative appraisals of the transition and personal and non-organizational factors: perceived centrality of the work role, availability of resources (finances, social support, personal hope), and sense of coherence.     

Globalization of a Transitional Economy

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