Internal labour markets in the Australian banking industry: their nature prior to the Second World War and their recent decline

This paper uses evidence from late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century personnel records of two Australian banks to examine the nature of internal labour markets prior to the Second World War. It is argued that the industry possessed all the classic features of internal labour markets: limited ports of entry, internal promotion, long careers, and assignment of wages by well-defined rules. The paper then examines the reasons why banks adopted internal labour markets. Finally, the paper examines the recent decline of internal labour markets and examines the role of technological and social changes in this decline.     

东部沿海快速发展区耕地变化及影响因素分析——以山东青岛平度市为例

本文以山东省面积最大的县(市、区)青岛平度市为例,基于1990年至2008年18年间的土地调查数据,分析了自1990年以来耕地变化趋势,并通过研究耕地变化与其它地类变化之间的相互关系,分析了耕地变化的直接影响因素.     

山东省苹果种植面积的时空演变特征分析

[目的]利用1978~2015年山东省苹果种植相关数据,实证分析山东省苹果种植面积的时空演变规律及其内在影响因素。[方法]从省域、区域、地市层面分析山东省苹果种植面积的时空演变规律,并运用多元线性回归模型实证分析山东省苹果种植面积变动的具体影响因素。[结果]山东省苹果种植面积从1978年的18.330万hm~2增至2015年的29.968万hm~2,总体增加,并以1995年为拐点先增后减,呈\"倒U\"形分布。从区域层面看,胶东半岛苹果种植面积稳步增加,泰沂山区、鲁西鲁北平原苹果种植面积持续萎缩,直接导致山东省苹果种植面积的不断减少和苹果主产区向胶东半岛的迁移。从地市层面看,山东省17地市中仅有胶东半岛的烟台、威海两地市苹果种植面积有所增加,其余15地市苹果种植面积均有不同程度的减少。说明山东省苹果主产区呈东进西退、北进南退的变迁特征。[结论]山东省苹果种植面积变动是资源禀赋、种植成本、种植业内部比较效益、种植传统和种植惯性、非农就业机会、非农就业收入、国家政策、地区政策、技术进步等众多因素共同作用的结果。基础设施条件、种植传统和种植惯性、非农就业机会、非农就业收入、地区政策的影响更为显著。其中,种植传统与种植惯性、地区政策对山东省苹果种植面积产生显著正向影响;非农就业机会和非农就业收入产生显著负向影响;基础设施条件向耕地的倾斜也产生显著不利影响。而种植成本、种植比较效益、国家政策、技术进步等因素的影响并不显著。     

日本核电危机及其影响初步分析

日本核电危机已经产生了严重的后果与广泛影响。基于目前证实的转折性的政府决定、政策、措施,从核电规划、能源政策、核电与气候变化3个视角讨论了核电危机的潜在影响,具体体现在核能发展可能会更加审慎、能源政策中各因素的协调、全球核电复兴趋势可能终结等方面。     

县域旅游经济制度变迁的实证分析--以杭州地区二县市(淳安县、临安市)为例

本文通过对杭州地区二县市(淳安县、临安市)旅游经济制度变迁的实证考察，剖析了改革开放后我国县域旅游经济制度变迁情况，阐述了影响县域旅游经济制度变迁和创新的因素，并指出了县域旅游经济制度变迁和创新的紧迫性和必要性。     

The Closing Frontier: Agrarian Change, Immigrants and the 'Squatter Menace' in Gokwe, 1980-1990s

‘Squatting’ in the communal areas of Zimbabwe has been largely ignored in the literature because it is assumed that it does not exist in a ‘communal’ land tenure system. This article argues that ‘squatting’ in Gokwe villages has become a common strategy by landless immigrants to access land. Gokwe has been a frontier region for many immigrants in search of land since the 1950s with intense pressure on land by the 1990s. As the frontier closed, the question of citizenship in Gokwe villages became more signi?cant than ever before. Those who are not formally registered as residents are de?ned by local government authorities and established villagers as ‘squatters’ who should be evicted. The article traces how local authorities and established villagers have responded to what they perceive as the ‘squatter menace’. It further examines the means used by ‘squatters’ to lay claims to land and to defend those claims in Gokwe villages.     

全球气候变化对海岛旅游地的影响与启示

气候既是海岛旅游业发展的自然条件,又是主要的资源,全球气候的异常变化影响海岛旅游资源的数量与质量、客流的空间与季节移动,并导致传统海岛旅游目的地的萎缩。全球气候变化对我国海岛旅游业的影响日益显著,必须及时调整海岛旅游发展的对策：大力发展生态旅游、可持续旅游;探究旅游者对气候变化的适应;改善海岛旅游目的地服务设施;重新进行海岛旅游规划;重视旅游主体人群的教育,以适应全球气候变化带来的巨大影响。     

Weaker jobs,weaker innovation. Exploring the effects of temporary employment on new products

This work explores the relationship between temporary employment and product innovation focusing on five major European economies (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands) observed between 1998 and 2012. The analysis distinguishes sectors according to their technological characteristics and regimes finding that industries using temporary employment tend to have a weaker product innovation propensity. The negative correlation between temporary employment and innovation turns out to be stronger in those sectors where tacit firm’s specific knowledge is crucial to the development of innovations. These sectors are identified using both the ‘Cumulativeness’ proxy stemming from Peneder’s classification as well as distinguishing between different Schumpeterian regimes – Schumpeter Mark I vs. II – of knowledge accumulation.