Multinationals and Training: Some Evidence from Irish Manufacturing Industries

This paper sets out to analyse the effect of plant and sectoral level characteristics on the provision of training to employees using plant level data for Irish manufacturing. There is no clear evidence that foreign owned plants are more likely to provide training. By contrast, we find that they spend less than domestic plants on training, ceteris paribus. There is also no evidence that plants that receive training grants are more likely to provide training. This may be likely to reflect the targeting of training grants on plants that are otherwise unlikely to provide much training. We do, however, find that training activity in the sector, either by other foreign or domestic plants, has a positive effect on plant level training activity, at least for domestic owned plants.     

从消费者行为差异看生活形态营销

随着人们生活水平的提高,消费者具备了满足个性消费的经济基础.人们不是仅仅要满足自己的基本需要,而是要在满足基本需要的同时来展现自己的个性、品味和身份,力求产品风格与自己的生活风格相一致,或者体现自己的生活风格.企业为了在激烈的市场竞争中准确找到自己的目标消费者,准确把握市场动向,制定正确的营销策略就必须对目标消费者的生活风格和价值观念等深层心理变量有一个透彻的了解.了解消费者的生活形态,认真研究其消费行为选择是企业在竞争中夺取市场先机的法宝.     

保税区与保税区外减免税及加工贸易政策对比

对照我国现行进出口管理、产业政策和加工贸易的相关规定,保税区内企业在进口设备减免税和加工贸易管理等方面与保税区外企业存在着一定的差异.对于保税区内企业来说,了解和认真研究这些差异,并在政策规定范围内充分用足、用好政策,以便为企业带来更大的经济效益.     

浅谈污泥减量技术

本文综述了目前国内外对污泥减量化研究的主要理论和方法,介绍了隐形生长、生物捕食、微生物强化、代谢解偶联和投加酶等污泥减量技术,比较了各种技术的优缺点,可供相关工程技术人员参考.     

Rural taxation and government regulation in China

This paper places the problem of Chinese rural taxation in the context of government regulation and seeks to present an integrated theoretical framework of Chinese rural development in the past two decades. Our theoretical framework reconciles the seemingly contradictory facts that the average level of rural taxation relative to rural net income did not increase quickly from 1990, but rural taxation became a very serious problem in this period. Our findings suggest that this is in large part due to increases in rural income disparity from 1990 and uneven tax distribution among different income groups. We argue that differentiated enforcement of government regulations such as grain procurement and birth control play an important role in the rural taxation problem, and more generally, the problem of local government expansion and rising rural income disparity. The empirical findings support our hypotheses.     

中心极限定理的两个应用

本文基于中心极限定理模型,对终身寿险的给付问题,利用精算现值的基础理论给出了解决方案;对于集体决策优于个体决策问题,给出了结论成立的充分必要条件。     

广东增城市出口收汇逾期未核销的原因及其对策

广东增城市贸易项下银行结售汇实现顺收顺差的前提下，即出现了出口收汇逾斯未核销的严重不良倾向，影响了出口收汇的核销管理工作，期待得到妥善解决。     

On Assisting Domestic Industries under Bertrand Competition

In a homogeneous‐good duopoly game with a home and a foreign firm, which compete on prices, it has been shown that the optimal way to assist the domestic industry is by a production subsidy. The argument here is that the subsidy is used to keep potential competitive pressure on the foreign firm. This paper analyzes under which conditions this threat of entry of a subsidized home firm is credible. It is shown that in markets where the firms move before the government, a subsidy is not credible and dominated by a tariff in terms of welfare.