迷上酒吧的理由

有人比喻酒吧是水泥城市的天窗，“人们迫不及待地探出头，试图逃脱逼仄的空间，哪怕得到片刻的欢娱。”而在成都，在迷上——一个酒吧，富有想象力的名字将欢娱变成了前戏：人们夜夜笙歌，长久缠绵悱恻。[编者按]     

青岛，爱上你的N个理由

一月,青岛收到了2006年的第一份快乐和喜悦。在全国主流网络媒体新浪网的网络评选中,青岛,以绝对性的优势赢得广大网民心目中的“2005年度中国最具风情城市”。非官方的评比,没有专家团参与论证,甚至,没有严格的评选标准明细…… 100多万网民投票评选,足以证明它的分量。不靠宣传、不靠造势、不靠吹捧,一个城市用它的魅力感染着越来越多的人。不能不说这是一个城市最好的成绩单。青岛,有着让人们深深爱恋的N个理由。     

循环经济的投入产出分析

本文运用投入产出理论对循环经济进行了量化分析，首先，在模型中将循环经济部门从生产部门和消除污染部门中分离开来，在投入不变的条件下，运用循环经济下的各种经济指标来研究新的投入产出关系。其次，通过比较研究的方法，来分析循环经济对整个国民经济的影响程度及对其效果进行评价。最后本文还探讨了在不引入循环生产部门的情况时循环经济的投入产出关系。     

论电力行业的企业管理创新

自1993年开始，全国电力企业管理现代化创新成果评审委员会已进行了8届成果评审，评出电力行业的优秀管理成果300余项，有几项还获得了全国企业管理现代化创新成果奖。这些管理成果表明电力企业在管理上突破了一些难点、热点问题的障碍，代表了电力行业的管理水平。从全行业涌现出来和正在申报的管理创新成果看，管理创新是企业管理者创造性地认识、掌握和运用管理规律的能力。企业管理者和经营者创造和运用管理创新成果，将会以最佳的投入获得最好的回报。     

Explaining Differences in Economic Performance Among Racial and Ethnic Groups in the USA

A bstract . By utilizing self-reported race and ancestry in the 1980 and 1990 USA censuses and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, the extent of wage discrimination experienced by women and by men is examined across 50 ethnic/racial groups. Systematic evidence of negative discrimination is revealed in both census years for Asian, Indian, black (African-American), Vietnamese, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican , and Native American males. To assess the charge that the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition indicates cultural rather than discriminatory differentials, two additional data experiments are performed—one that controls for color and varies culture, and one that controls for culture and varies color. Race appears to matter.     

The in-depth testing of survey questions: A critical appraisal of methods

It has become increasingly apparent that the conventional piloting, or pre-testing, of survey questions does not ensure that questions are understood by respondents as researchers intend them to be understood. This has led survey methodologists to advocate the use of indepth testing procedures. While some of the procedures used to identify comprehension problems appear to be reasonably effective, almost all of the procedures used to identify other kinds of problems have not proved to be very useful. Two reasons stand out as explanations for this general lack of success. First, the probes used are themselves not likely to be interpreted in the same way by different respondents. Second, the cognitive psychological assumptions that have suggested many of the procedures may not adequately reflect the processes that underlie the way questions are answered. A number of suggestions are made with the view to making the in-depth testing of survey questions a more profitable exercise.     

现场实施的管理(上)

前面各章讲述了现场实施的基础知识和基本方法：本章就一个项目所涉及的各个现场实施环节，按顺序进行描述。     

Institutional design and the closure of public facilities in transition economies

As part of the reforms of their systems for financing and delivering health care, many transition economies, particularly in central and eastern Europe, have adopted national insurance funds that are institutionally separate from ministries of health. Most of these countries have also grappled with the problem of restructuring the delivery system, especially the need to reduce hospital capacity. Although improving the performance of medical care providers through a shift from passive budgeting to explicitly incentive mechanisms is important, why this change in financial relations between the government and providers could not be implemented simply by reforming the role of health ministries is not obvious. This paper presents an explicit rationale for the separation of powers between the regulator (the ministry of health) and the financing body (the insurance fund), based on the inability of a single agency to commit to closing hospitals. JEL classification: L51, P20, P35, I18.     

The Effects of Occupational Injuries After Returns to Work: Work Absences and Losses of On-the-Job Productivity

We extend the research on postinjury employment by estimating productivity losses for workers with permanent partial disabilities (PPDs) in the first three years after injury. Our method distinguishes between productivity losses attributed to spells of work absence versus reduced earnings during spells of employment. The method is applied to data for 800 Ontario workers with PPDs. The results document large productivity losses persisting at least three years after injury, with different loss patterns for workers returning to stable versus unstable employment. Human capital investments or job accommodations can reduce productivity losses, but the significant determinants of losses differ for the stable versus unstable employment groups.