Unpaid Work at Home

A substantial number of people take work home without a formal payment arrangement. Using the Work Schedules and Work at Home Supplement to the May 2001 Current Population Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of unpaid work at home. Education, lack of overtime rates, being a team leader, efficiency wages, and larger earnings inequality in an occupation are positively related to the prevalence of unpaid work at home. Unpaid work at home appears to be a form of investment made in expectation of a return in the long run.     

思想政治工作如伺应对二次创业的挑战

2008年是中国运载火箭技术研究院发展史上第一个50年的辉煌节点，又是进入第二个50年新征程的标志。如何在第二个50年里永葆活力，再创辉煌，研究院党委不失时机地提出了“推动二次创业，实现市场化转型”的工作方针。     

2009年纽伦堡玩具展纽伦堡玩具展览公司将首次组展中国展团

纽伦堡玩具展览公司将于2009年的纽伦堡国际玩具展上首次以“纽伦堡玩具展览公司的中国展团”的名义,为中国玩具展商以主办方的身份组织自己名下的联合展团。这次组团是由纽伦堡玩具展的中国代表处协助组织和管理的。这一世界上最大的玩具,模型 及休闲用品的展览将在2009年2月5日至10日举行,而就在这一届,它将庆祝自己的60周年纪念。     

名利场

1大众中国进入海兹曼时代一纸任命终成现实,约赫姆·海兹曼日前正式成为了大众在全球最大的海外市场的掌门人。2012年9月1日,来自大众集团总部德国"狼堡"的通告表明,大众中国从此进入了海兹曼时代。从即日起,海兹曼正式出任大众汽车集团(中国)总裁兼首席执行官,负责大众汽车集团在中国的所有业务,包括集团旗下的各个品牌及合资企业。早在今年6月,大众汽车集     

Temporary Help Work: Earnings,Wages, and Multiple Job Holding*

Temporary help services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers. An extended policy debate focuses on the low earnings, limited benefits, and insecurity that such jobs appear to provide. We investigate the earnings and wage differentials observed between THS and other jobs in a sample of disadvantaged workers. We find lower quarterly earnings at THS jobs but a $1 per hour wage premium. We reconcile these findings in terms of the shorter duration and lower hours worked at THS jobs. We interpret the premium as a compensating wage differential.     

棉花期货:雾中看花?--专访郑州商品交易所副总经理张晋生

<中国纺织>:中国原来没有棉花的期货价格,6月1日郑州交易所棉花期货交易上市,第一次出现了中国的棉花期贷价格,其重大意义在于一是有利于形成棉花合理的未来价格;二是为广大纺织企业提供价格信息和风险管理;三是有利于完善棉花价格体系.那么请您介绍一下二个多月以来的运行情况怎样?接下来是否会进行一些调整?     

What Makes Mediation Work? Mediators’ Perspectives on Resolving Disputes*

This research explores federal mediators’ perspectives on successful conflict resolution in contract disputes. The results indicate that mediator skill base and a collaborative orientation on the part of the disputants are positively related to the likelihood of reaching agreement, while relationship hostility is negatively related to the likelihood of reaching agreement. Other independent variables, such as management outlook and mediator acceptability, were in‐directly related to the likelihood of reaching agreement. Consistent with most previous research, mediator tactics were unrelated to the likelihood of reaching agreement. Limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.     

Alcohol Prohibition and Pricing at the Pump*

Firms often sell a transparent base product and a valuable add-on. If only some consumers are aware of the latter, the add-on's effect on the base product's price will be ambiguous. Cross-subsidization between products to bait uninformed consumers might lower, intrinsic utility from the add-on for informed consumers might raise the price. We study this trade-off in the gasoline market by exploiting an alcohol sales prohibition at stations as an exogenous shifter of add-on availability. Gasoline margins drop by 5% during the prohibition. The effect is mediated by shop variety and competition. Using traffic data, we unveil sizeable consumer-side reactions.     

What Works at Work: Overview and Assessment

This article discusses why it is difficult to measure the effects of management practices on organizational performance. In spite of these difficulties, a collage of evidence suggests that innovative workplace practices can increase performance, primarily through the use of systems of related practices that enhance worker participation, make work design less rigid, and decentralize managerial tasks. A majority of U.S. businesses have adopted some innovative work practices. However, only a small percentage of businesses have adopted a full system of innovative practices. We outline several constraints on the diffusion of new work practices, and suggest directions for future research     

Is Good Work Good for Democracy? Work,Change at Work and Political Participation in Canada and England

This article draws on data from 750 Canadian and 450 English workers to systematically explore the implications of work for political participation, addressing whether ‘good’ work, and recent trends identified in work and employment, appear to be good for political participation. It finds that various aspects of work and of the work experience, many of which have been associated with recent trends, can have significant implications. However, these implications tend to differ for ‘passive’ and ‘active’ forms of participation and to be weak for the former. Moreover, characteristics that might be associated with ‘good’ work have negative as well as positive spillovers, suggesting contradictory effects and reducing the net positive effects of good jobs. Finally, there is some (albeit limited) evidence of cross‐national differences, especially with regard to the implications of union representation.     

Work at home and time use in Finland

This study examines the relationship between home‐based work (HBW) and time use by comparing unpaid (overtime) home workers, paid (agreed) home workers and non‐home workers. Especially, unpaid HBW was linked to the stretching of working hours and the reduction of free time.     

深圳玩具展1月11-13日开展

由《玩具世界》杂志社、深圳市玩具行业协会、东莞市玩具行业协会、广州玩具和礼品行业协会共同举办的2008深圳玩具展暨华南国际玩具礼品工业展定于2008年1月11日至13日在深圳市龙岗区平湖华南城国际会展中心举行。     

中国国际服装服饰博览会

分期办展,服务面面俱到 第十二届中国国际服装服饰博览会(CHIC2004),将以崭新面貌于2004年3月30日至4月1日及4月5日至4月7日在中国国际展览中心隆重举行。CHIC2004将原本一期四天的展览会分成两期举办:第一期展示男装、休闲装,第二期展示女装、童装,每个展期各为三天,展出面积达到10万平方米,有效克服了以     

Sexual Orientation,Income, and Stress at Work

I present a model explaining recent findings that partnered gay men earn less than partnered straight men while partnered lesbian women earn more than partnered straight women. In an environment with compensating differentials and a gender gap in potential income, an income effect leads partnered gay men to choose jobs with lower income and higher amenities than partnered straight men. The same mechanism generates similarly reasoned predictions about income and amenities for women and single people. Canadian data on stressfulness of one's working environment support these predictions.     

公允价值会计的反思

公允价值与历史成本之间的孰优孰劣一直就伴随着争议。我们不应该忽视公允价值固有的内涵缺陷及其与财务会计概念框架的冲突,以及在金融危机中的顺周期效应。文章将从会计决策有用目标和会计信息质量以及准则的经济后果角度重新反思公允价值会计。