Why does firm reputation in human resource policies influence college students? The mechanisms underlying job pursuit intentions

Business periodicals, such as Fortune magazine, rank organizations in lists such as the “Best Companies to Work For,” providing applicants with information about firms' human resource practices, including pay, benefits, work‐life, and diversity practices. It is not clear what influence this reputational information about HR practices has on applicant interest in pursuing employment or, more important, why it does so. Given that firms invest substantial resources in HR practices to vie for positions on these lists, the current study sought to fill these gaps in the literature. In the 2 (compensation) × 2 (work‐family) × 2 (diversity) factorial design, 232 college students read about magazine rankings in which a firm's reputation in each HR practice was manipulated as ranking either high or low relative to competitors. We examined perceptions of organizational prestige, anticipated organizational support, and anticipated role performance as mechanisms that explain the influence of HR practice reputation on job pursuit intentions. Our results indicate that a firm's reputation in compensation, work‐family, and diversity efforts increase college students' intentions to pursue employment with a firm. They do so because college students perceive that the organization is prestigious, will be supportive, and will foster their job performance. Our results suggest that a strong employer brand derived from employee‐centered HR practices is important for recruiting college students. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

基于数据包络分析方法的安徽省地区间工业发展差异的实证研究

运用数据包络分析（DEA）方法,对安徽省17个城市三类不同的工业企业进行分析发现,15个城市存在不同程度的非DEA有效,没有一个城市已经达到规模递增的状态。导致其非DEA有效的主要原因在于规模过小,技术效率低下。针对这种状况,提出扩大已有工业企业的规模、加大招商引资工作的力度、发挥各市工业的比较优势等政策建议。     

微分几何在圆环面轴测图中的应用

运用微分几何原理 ,通过分析其等距线特征 ,确定圆环面轴测图的形状 ,并提出了一种用经线圆包络线法画圆环面轴测图的一种方法。     

时间偏好不一致的行为经济学解释

行为经济学摆脱了传统理论抽象的完全理性人假设的束缚,利用实验经济学和心理学的相关知识,提出基于有限理性的行为人的假设,在此基础上,从人们的不耐心递减、有限意志力、估测偏见、参照点依赖四个方面的特性来说明行为经济学对人们时间偏好不一致的解释。     

边长投影变形值归算及其坐标后处理

本文通过边长投影变形值的计算和理论分析,阐述了测量工程在精度要求不同的阶段采用不同的坐标系统及变形值超限后的解决方法。     

上海市未来人口和人力资本的变化趋势分析

利用多状态模型,预测了上海市未来30年人口规模、年龄结构、城市化水平,以及人力资本的变化趋势。无论从上海市经济发展对于劳动力的需求,还是上海市的人口结构看,一定数量的迁移人口对于上海经济和人口的健康发展是有积极意义的。     

Disaggregated oil shocks and stock-market tail risks: Evidence from a panel of 48 economics

We analyse the impact of oil supply, global economic activity, oil-specific consumption demand, and oil-inventory demand shocks on equity-market tail risks of a panel of 48 developed and emerging economies over the monthly period from 1975:01 to 2017:12. We find that, oil supply, global economic activity, and oil-inventory demand shocks reduce tail risks, but oil-specific consumption demand shock increases tail risks, with these effects stronger in oil-exporting economies. Our results have important implications for investors and policymakers.     

Projection‐Based Inference in Randomised Clinical Trials

Covariate information is often available in randomised clinical trials for each subject prior to treatment assignment and is commonly utilised to make covariate adjustment for baseline characteristics predictive of the outcome in order to increase precision and improve power in the detection of a treatment effect. Motivated by a nonparametric covariance analysis, we study a projection approach to making objective covariate adjustment in randomised clinical trials on the basis of two unbiased estimating functions that decouple the outcome and covariate data. The proposed projection approach extends a weighted least‐squares procedure by projecting one of the estimating functions onto the linear subspace spanned by the other estimating function that is E‐ancillary for the average treatment effect. Compared with the weighted least‐squares method, the projection method allows for objective inference on the average treatment effect by exploiting the treatment specific covariate–outcome associations. The resulting projection‐based estimator of the average treatment effect is asymptotically efficient when the treatment‐specific working regression models are correctly specified and is asymptotically more efficient than other existing competitors when the treatment‐specific working regression models are misspecified. The proposed projection method is illustrated by an analysis of data from an HIV clinical trial. In a simulation study, we show that the proposed projection method compares favourably with its competitors in finite samples.     

The African Growth and Opportunity Act and growth in sub‐Saharan Africa: A local projection approach

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is intended to increase exports and economic growth in sub‐Saharan Africa by providing trade preferences to eligible countries. While previous research has generally found a positive relationship between AGOA and exports, no previous research has investigated the relationship between AGOA and economic growth. We explore the dynamic relationship between AGOA and economic growth in sub‐Saharan Africa by applying the local projection method (American Economic Review, 95, 2005 and 161) to estimate impulse responses. We find that a country's becoming eligible for AGOA preferences is associated with higher growth rates in the future, but that this effect may not be immediate, highlighting the importance of exploring the dynamic relationship between AGOA and growth.     

“把白话真正的香味烧出来”—老舍的语言艺术

老舍对语言有独特执著的美学追求，主张：“从生活中学习语言”；“把白话真正的香味烧出来”；“好的文字是由心中炼制出来的”。因而其语言风格自成一家：运用纯净口语，融会欧化句式，饱含哲理性，富于音乐美，为中国20世纪文学语言的创造发展，作出了不可磨灭的巨大贡献。