新农村建设背景下白裤瑶开展传统体育文化活动的调查与分析

以广西河池市南丹县里湖乡的300多名白裤瑶群众为研究对象,对白裤瑶群众参与体育健身活动现状进行调查与分析,并提出在新农村建设背景下白裤瑶地区进一步发展体育文化活动的建议和对策。     

拉萨市乞讨的未成年人生存现状分析与对策研究

近年来,"乞讨人员"的话题一直备受社会各界的关注。而"乞讨"大军中的"未成年人"却鲜有关注,从拉萨市"未成年乞讨者"的角度出发,通过对未成年乞讨人员的问卷及社会调查问卷的整理分析,力图为完善拉萨社会救助体系提供一些参考。     

HOW WELL DO WE MEASURE EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE?

Using data from the Current Population Survey and a new matched survey of employers and employees, this paper investigates error in the measurement of employer-provided health insurance. The often-used March CPS gives lower coverage estimates than the April/May CPS, which focuses on employer-provided coverage. In addition, individuals who are in both the March CPS and April/May CPS often give inconsistent responses on their health insurance status, perhaps due to differences in the wording of the health insurance questions. A new survey shows that workers tend to report higher rates of coverage than do firms and that many individuals also disagree with their employers about their coverage. The differences in the firm and worker reports of coverage are uncorrelated with standard worker and firm characteristics, suggesting classical measurement error that does not bias the parameters of models explaining health coverage. When health insurance is used as an explanatory variable, however, measurement error results in significant bias toward zero.     

消费者寿险购买行为影响因素实证研究

本文采用因子分析和结构方程模型对消费者寿险购买意向和保费支付意向的影响因素进行了实证分析。研究结果表明:消费者对未来生活的担忧程度,对寿险基本功能的认知程度,参加极限运动的频率和经济状况会影响到其寿险购买意向;经济状况和身体健康情况会影响到保费支付意向;购买意向对支付意向也有显著的正向影响。     

Do Earnings Targets and Managerial Incentives Affect Sticky Costs?

This study explores motivations underlying managers’ resource adjustments. We focus on the impact of incentives to meet earnings targets on resource adjustments and the ensuing cost structures. We find that, when managers face incentives to avoid losses or earnings decreases, or to meet financial analysts’ earnings forecasts, they expedite downward adjustment of slack resources for sales decreases. These deliberate decisions lessen the degree of cost stickiness rather than induce cost stickiness. The results suggest that efforts to understand determinants of firms’ cost structures should be made in light of the managers’ motivations, particularly agency‐driven incentives underlying resource adjustment decisions.     

The Effectiveness of OSHA Penalties: A Stock-Market-Based Test

This study examines shareholder reactions to the announcements of OSHA penalties in the press over the years 1979-89. The analysis demonstrates that investors react negatively to the announced sanctions over the time interval immediately surrounding the announcement day. The decreases in the values of the subject firms are, however, found to be unrelated to the relative size of the penalty, to the number of non-record-keeping violations, and to whether the penalties were attributable to employee injury or death. The findings suggest that for the stockholders the nature of the announced OSHA sanctions is largely irrelevant, and they further point toward a reassessment of the assumed deterrent impact of the penalities.