Foreign Investors in The Netherlands: Heterogeneous Employment and Productivity Effects

Recent academic research suggests that the effects of inward foreign direct investment for productivity and employment may vary across foreign investors with different characteristics. Using a newly created dataset that integrates micro-level information from The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and Statistics Netherlands, this paper explores the role of several of these characteristics, including e.g. the country of origin, activities and tasks, age and strategic role of foreign affiliates in The Netherlands in the 2000–2007 period. Our analysis shows that important employment and productivity differences exist for nearly all these dimensions.     

论民族旅游村寨“农家乐”独特优势资源——以贵州西江千户苗寨为例

文章以贵州西江千户苗寨为例,通过实地调查研究,对民族旅游区内农家乐经营者和旅游者作出大致分类,分析两者的文化传播与接收角色,对比其他地区农家乐类型之后,总结出民族旅游区的独特优势资源,这对少数民族文化在旅游发展中的传承与变迁具有一定价值。     

中国是世界进程的一部分

中国近30年的改革开放经历是支持还是颠覆了福山的思维框架;是证明还是证伪了他的历史终结论?中国漫长的历程真的游离在世界历程之外,从而使中国的发展不能与其他国家一概而论吗?     

How a Reduction of Standard Working Hours Affects Employment Dynamics

December 1, 1996 a new law was implemented in Portugal to gradually reduce the standard workweek from 44 to 40 h. We study how this mandatory reduction affected employment through job creation and job destruction. There was considerable regional, sectoral and firm-size variation in the share of workers who were affected by the working hours reduction. We exploit this variation to assess the impact of the workweek reduction. We find evidence that the working hours reduction had a positive effect on employment through a fall in job destruction.     

北京奥运期间抵制法货运动对中国境内合资企业产法国品牌汽车销售量的影响估计

2008年北京奥运期间,中法之间由于西藏骚乱和奥运火炬传递巴黎受阻等事件,在中国各大重要城市引发了一场大规模抵制法货的运动.本文运用Difference in Difference (DID)方法,以中国境内合资汽车企业生产的法国品牌汽车为例,实证估计了抵制运动对法国品牌汽车销量的影响,并进行了多项统计检验.结果发现:(1)由于抵制运动,研究期内,法国品牌汽车遭受了巨大的需求冲击--月均销量下降至少40%;(2)由于替代效应,中国自主知识产权品牌汽车生产厂商在一定程度上从抵制运动中受益;(3)低排量汽车消费者是抵制运动的主要参与者.