Xenophobia and the Size of the Public Sector in France: A Politico-economic Analysis

Anti-immigrant feeling (xenophobia) among voters was a key factor in the second-place victory of Jean Le Pen's National Front Party in the 2002 French national election. Here, we study the effect of anti-immigrant sentiment on the equilibrium position of political parties on the economic issue, which we take to be the size of the public sector. We model political competition among three parties (Left, Right, and Extreme Right) on a two-dimensional policy space (public sector size, immigration issue) using the PUNE model. We calibrate the model to French data for the election years 1988 and 2002, and show that politics have changed significantly over this period, from being centered primarily on economic issues, to non-economic issues such as immigration and security/law-and-order. We estimate that in 2002, the effect of voter xenophobia was to reduce the voters' choice of public-sector size between 11% and 28% of one standard deviation of the population's distribution of public-sector size ideal points, from what it would have been, absent xenophobia.     

农民返乡创业脆弱性的内涵界定及维度识别

农民工返乡创业失败率受诸多因素的影响,但归根结底源于农民返乡创业具有较高的脆弱性,而现有研究缺乏对农民返乡创业脆弱性内涵的探索。鉴于此,本文在系统梳理以往文献的基础上,基于脆弱性、新创弱性和创业韧性等相关概念,对农民返乡创业脆弱性的理论内涵进行了界定,并从微观、中观及宏观等三个层面识别和分析了农民创业脆弱性的维度,为进一步深入分析农民返乡脆弱性的缓解机制与对策建议奠定基础。     

论高校思想政治工作中的人文关怀和心理疏导

加强和改进思想政治工作必须要注重人文关怀和心理疏导。高校思想政治教育工作者要转变观念,重视心理健康教育,注意尊重个性差异,努力营造积极向上的校园文化,促进学生心理健康发展。     

我国政府购买居家养老服务保障现状与问题思考

政府购买居家养老服务保障模式作为实现政府、市场和社会三位资源整合的新型养老方式是迎接人口老龄化到来的优势养老选择,在国外和港台地区已经获得迅速发展并建立了长效运行机制。相比而言,当前我国政府购买居家养老服务事业正处于起步阶段,虽然部分地区已进行了有益的实践探索和总结,但服务的购买方、供给方、需求方都还面临着诸多困境：服...     

What does it mean to find the face of the franchise? Physical attractiveness and the evaluation of athletic performance

We show that attractiveness, as measured by facial symmetry, leads to greater rewards in professional sports. National Football League quarterbacks who are more attractive are paid greater salaries and this premium persists after controlling for player performance.     

DOES GNP EXAGGERATE GROWTH IN “ACTUAL” OUTPUT? THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES

Measures of national product can be misleading because there is nonmarket production. There are also distortions due to transactional activities, which are expenditures to support transactions, not actual output consumed. For 1950–89, this study recalculates output for the United States, adjusting for transactional activities and nonmarket production. Due to relatively rapid growth in transactional activities, GNP overstates output growth in the 1950s; because there was slow expansion of transactional activities in the early 1970s, GNP understates actual output. Since 1974, increases in transactional activities and shifts to market production lead GNP to exaggerate improvement of "actual" output per capita.     

社会责任投资实证分析

与只考虑风险及回报的传统投资方式不同,社会责任投资在投资对象的筛选中,除考虑财务指标以外,还特别注重社会、环境、人权等企业社会责任的标准.传统的投资理念认为投资以追求财务回报最大化为唯一的目标,考虑财务回报以外的社会责任因素就会降低投资收益.在传统的投资组合的基础上构建关注利益相关者的社会责任投资模型,实证研究结果表明:社会责任投资意味着关注其他利益相关者不仅不会削弱投资回报率,而且具有高于市场的投资回报率.     

论我国抗旱立法的完善

旱灾一直是我国的主要自然灾害之一,它影响粮食安全、饮用水安全、生态安全。面对大旱,我们必须深刻反思我国现有抗旱立法工作的不足之处,并通过加强防灾减灾与水资源管理方面立法,完善《森林法》的内容,加快制定农业保险法、农田水利法等农业立法,使我国抗旱工作有法可依,提高我国应对旱灾的能力。     

Operational Research and the environment

The discipline of Operational Research (OR) is primarily concerned with improving the effectiveness and efficiency of decision processes. These processes take place everywhere in society: industry, banking, agriculture, government, politics. Frequent use of mathematical optimization models is typical of OR. Since the early '80s these models are increasingly packaged in a user-friendly way, as Decision Support Systems. In the following we will illustrate how OR can be used to describe and solve a number of environmental problems.