种姓、阶级与地位——以南印喀拉拉邦为例

在印度宪法允诺一个"无种姓"社会五十多年后,种姓尚没有显示出任何要消失的迹象,但变化也确确实实地发生了。本文在南印喀拉拉邦的背景中探讨了这一变化的一些方面。基于田野调查材料,本文指出,在相互依赖的种姓体系已不复存在的今日喀拉拉,种姓等级价值已从公共领域退却,但并未就此消失,种姓歧视仍在个人的层面存在。家庭地位坐标系显示出浓厚的中产阶级特征,但社群背景并未完全失去意义。种姓内婚制不仅再生产种姓身份,也是种姓等级价值的隐居之处,这使种姓还不能等同于族群,尽管后者可能是它的方向。     

浅论如何防治外墙抹灰中裂缝现象

分析了外墙抹灰基体和基层裂缝产生的原因,从设计和施工的角度提出了相应的防治措施,以满足建筑物的外观和工程质量验收的要求.     

Luft zum Atmen

Mehr Sicherheit im Umgang mit Trachealkanülen - Pflegende, die Patienten mit einer Trachealkanüle betreuen, müssen den Kanülenwechsel sicher beherrschen. Denn bei Komplikationen kann das Warten auf den Arzt katastrophale Folgen haben. Daher muss der Umgang mit den Kanülen zur Routine werden.     

Not all trade restrictions are created equally

There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. This introduction has highlighted the importance of the entry/exit decision of firms in response to changes in trade barriers. However, it is typical in many of these models to use iceberg transport costs as a general form of trade barriers that can be interchangeable with ad valorem tariffs. I show that this is not always an appropriate conclusion. Specifically, I illustrate that profit for an exporter is more elastic in response to tariffs than iceberg transport costs, which affects the entry/exit decision of firms. This has implications for welfare analysis and empirical specifications.     

Should multivariate early warning systems for banking crises pool across regions?

Most extant work on prediction of banking crises has utilised global samples, which are in turn dominated by observations from middle-income countries, and rely on a single estimator. However, economic and financial structures as well as the pattern of shocks may differ substantially across regions, while a range of specifications is desirable to check robustness. Accordingly, in this paper we test the implicit pooling assumption in earlier multivariate work on Early Warning Systems using both logit and binary recursive tree specifications separately for crises in Asia and Latin America, as well as the pooled sample. Results suggest markedly different crisis determinants across regions, implying global samples are inappropriate.     

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.