Statistical Discrimination and Gender Wage Gap: A Model

In this paper, I extend the model in Coate and Loury (CL) (1993) to show how statistical discrimination by employers can help create gender wage gap for men and women with equal earning potentials. Given that employers do not perfectly observe a worker’s skill type and partly rely on the average skills level of his (her) peers for inference purpose, employers’ differential treatment of male and female workers can create different skill-investment incentives for them, which in turn justify employers’ discrimination in the first place. The second result of this paper which is not possible within the original CL framework is that I point to the possibility that there exist circumstances under which the gender wage gap can not be eliminated without the formerly advantaged sex being negatively affected.     

智慧健康养老产业发展的SWOT分析及对策研究

信息技术与健康养老深度融合,发展智慧健康养老产业是国家积极应对人口老龄化的重要举措,推进我国基本公共服务供给侧结构性改革的必然结果.文章基于SWOT模型,从内外部环境因素来分析我国智慧健康养老产业发展所面临的优势、劣势、机遇和挑战,提出推动智慧健康养老产业发展的主要路径.建议加大对智慧养老产业发展的扶持力度,突破关键技术,加快研发成果的转化.提升产品和服务供给质量和水平,搭建公共服务平台.转变养老观念,提升人们对智慧健康养老理念的认知水平.强化信息安全监管,使智慧养老有法可依.     

医疗保险对农村中老年人精神健康的影响——基于CHARLS数据的实证分析

在"优先发展农业农村"的新时代,要实现全民健康,需要重点关注农村居民的健康问题。基于CHARLS数据,本文以精神抑郁和认知健康为被解释变量实证分析了医疗保险对农村中老年人精神健康的影响。研究发现:(1)医疗保险对农村中老年人特别是弱势群体的精神健康有显著的促进作用,且显著体现在男性、60岁及以上老人和低收入群体。居住在农村的中老年人比居住在城镇的更显著受益于医疗保险;(2)分位数回归和更换被解释变量回归验证了结果的稳健性;(3)机制分析表明,医疗保险通过提高农村中老年人的安全预期和生活满意度来提升其精神健康水平。为此,应进一步扩大医疗保险的参保覆盖面,增进制度公平以提升农村居民的安全预期,并加大农村财政投入和加强健康教育,打破农村精神卫生服务"供需双冷"的困境,从根本上提升农村居民的精神健康水平。     

温州民营企业组织创新与空间布局演变研究

温州是我国民营经济和市场经济起步最早、发展最快的地区之一,文章从1980年代至今的温州民营企业发展历程中两次组织创新人手,分析了企业发展模式的特点和空间布局演变的过程,进而探讨了民营企业布局对城市发展的影响和启示。     

企业可持续发展的战略选择：社会责任管理

在经济全球化的背景下 ,社会责任管理是任何一个企业都不能回避的问题 ,它关系到企业的生存和发展。企业应该把社会责任管理作为可持续发展的战略选择 ,并努力构建有效的社会责任管理模式。     

浅论防止新型工业化中的"替代"倾向

在我国走新型工业化道路的实践中,应注意防止以下四种替代倾向:一是以工业发展替代工业化;二是以信息化替代工业化;三是以政府替代市场;四是以劳动密集型产业替代资本技术密集型产业。     

本土情境下高管团队断裂带对企业绿色技术创新的影响

在环境问题与经济发展矛盾日趋紧张背景下,运用团队断裂带理论,选取2014-2017年我国重污染上市企业为研究样本,基于本土情境考察高管团队断裂带对企业绿色技术创新的影响。结果发现,团队成员部分特征属性会在绿色技术创新任务下被激活,社会分类断裂带和本土情境下的人际关联断裂带对企业绿色技术创新有抑制作用,任务相关断裂带和社会资本断裂带则对其有积极影响,股权集中度在这一过程中具有调节作用。基于本土视角,开拓性探究团队断裂带对绿色技术创新的影响,丰富了断裂带理论研究框架,拓展了关于断裂带类型的研究,为实践层面分析提供了新证据。     

平台生态系统下我国中小制造企业与互联网融合发展路径研究

随着云计算、大数据、物联网等互联技术兴起,互联网平台逐渐成为我国中小制造企业生存与发展的土壤。基于平台生态系统理论与价值共创理论,遵循“主体互动融合—跨业价值重塑—环境协同共生”基本框架,探究我国中小制造企业与互联网融合的内涵及特征。运用嵌入型多案例研究方法,探究我国中小制造企业与互联网融合发展模式,提炼归纳出我国中小制造企业与互联网融合发展的3种路径。     

组织间学习与绿色创新:绿色吸收能力的调节作用

尽管组织间学习已经获得较多关注,但鲜有研究探讨它对绿色创新的影响。从组织间关系和双元性理论视角,提出了组织间的纵向利用式学习和横向探索式学习,基于组织学习理论和吸收能力理论,探究了两种组织间学习方式与绿色创新的关系,并检验了绿色吸收能力的调节作用。基于203家中国制造企业的调查数据,实证结果表明:纵向利用式学习和横向探索式学习都能显著正向影响绿色创新;相比横向探索式学习,纵向利用式学习对绿色创新的影响作用更强。绿色吸收能力在横向探索式学习与绿色创新之间也起调节作用,但它并不调节纵向利用式学习与绿色创新的关系。研究提出了不同的组织间学习方法与绿色创新的关系,丰富并拓展了绿色创新的相关研究。     

The economic burden of depression among adults with rheumatoid arthritis in the United States

Aims: Depression is the most frequent comorbidity reported among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Comorbid depression negatively impacts RA patients’ health-related quality-of-life, physical function, mental function, mortality, and experience of pain and symptom severity. The objective of this study was to assess healthcare utilization, expenditures, and work productivity among patients with RA with or without depression.

Materials and methods: Data from adult patients who had at least two visits each related to RA and depression over a 1-year period were extracted from the Truven Health MarketScan research databases. Outcomes comprised healthcare resource utilization, work productivity loss, and direct healthcare costs comparing patients with RA with depression (n?=?3,478) vs patients with RA without depression (n?=?43,222).

Results: Patients with RA and depression had a significantly greater relative risk of hospitalization and number of all-cause and RA-related hospitalizations, utilization of emergency services, days spent in the hospital, physician visits, and RA-related surgeries compared with RA patients without depression. Patients with RA and depression had a higher risk of and experienced more events and days of short-term disability compared with patients without depression. The incremental adjusted annual all-cause and RA-related direct costs were $8,488 (95% CI = $6,793–$10,223) and $578 (95% CI = –$98–$1,243), respectively, when comparing patients with RA and depression vs RA only.

Limitations: The current analysis is subject to the known limitations of retrospective studies based on administrative claims data.

Conclusions: This study suggested increased healthcare utilization, work productivity loss, and economic burden among RA patients due to comorbid depression. These findings emphasize the importance of managing depression and including depression as a factor when devising treatment algorithms for patients with RA.