Local Labor Supply Responses to Immigration

How natives adjust is central to an understanding of the impact of immigration in destination countries. Using detailed labor force data for Malaysia for 1990–2010, we provide estimates of native responses to immigration on multiple extensive margins and rare evidence for a developing country. Instrumental variable estimates show that increased immigration to a state causes substantial internal inward migration, consistent with the fact that immigration increases the demand for native workers. Relocating Malaysian workers are accompanied by their spouses (three‐quarters of whom are housewives) and children who attend school. We find that these effects are concentrated among middle‐ and lower‐skilled Malaysians.     

Assessing Recreational Activities’ Service Quality in Hotels: An Examination of Animation and Spa & Wellness Services

In this study, service quality perceptions of international tourists’ about the recreational activities in a five-star hotel located in Antalya, Turkey were examined by a measurement tool adapted from the ServQual model. Study 1 for animation and Study 2 for wellness & spa services, were carried out with the participation of 213 and 143 tourists, respectively. Analyses of the data show that both recreation activities’ service quality consists of three dimensions, which are: ‘Tangibility,’ ‘Competence & Courtesy,’ and ‘Credibility & Safety.’ Results show that all service dimensions of animation have almost the same effect on overall satisfaction from the hotel, while the ‘Tangibility’ dimension belong to spa & wellness have the highest.     

On barriers to technology adoption,appropriate technology and European integration

Review of World Economics - We first estimate country- and sector-specific technology frontiers within the EU, and show that countries that joined the Union in 2004-7 clearly stand below the lower...     

机构投资者参与治理决策的影响因素分析——基于上市公司的视角

为了改善我国上市公司治理,提高上市公司的绩效并促进股票市场的健康发展,政府监管部门出台了一系列促进机构投资者发展的政策和措施。机构投资者得到了巨大的发展。但是,机构投资者的发展对改善上市公司治理的作用受到质疑。本文分析了机构投资者参与公司治理的动机,并根据这一动机从上市公司的角度分析了影响机构投资者参与公司治理决策的因素。     

Tactical crew planning in railways

Tactical crew capacity planning problem in railways involves finding the minimum number of crews in a region required to operate a predetermined set of train duties satisfying the strict day-off requirement for crew. For the single-region problem, we develop two solution approaches based on a space–time network representation: the sequential approach and the integrated approach. We also study the multi-regional capacity planning problem where we minimize total system-wide capacity by simultaneously considering multiple regions within a neighborhood search algorithm based on our solution methods for the single-region problem. We present the computational study on problem instances from Turkish State Railways.     

江苏民俗类农业文化遗产的现状调查与保护对策研究

江苏民俗类农业遗产资源丰富,主要集中在生产民俗、生活民俗与民间观念。从整体特色上看,江苏民俗类农业遗产具有丰厚的地域历史内涵与地域文化特色,它是非物质文化遗产的富矿,反映了江苏和全国其他地区的文化关联性,是江苏文化具有多重文化交汇、多元共生的重要见证。从保护对策上,应该在尊重与了解的基础上,重视江苏民俗类农业遗产的全面传承与发展;重视文化重构,强化其文化内生力;文化产业介入与公共文化建设双管齐下,做好保护与开发的双重工作。     

氨水共沉淀法制备纳米活性NiO的研究

简述了以Ni(NO3 ) 2 ·6H2 O为原料、氨水为沉淀剂 ,通过共沉淀法得到前驱物再经后处理制备出了纳米活性NiO的方法。该法简化了操作程序、降低了加工成本 ,且原料价廉易得 ,便于实现工业化生产     

Informativeness of experiments for meu

The celebrated Blackwell’s theorem demonstrates the equivalence of a notion of statistical informativeness and economic valuableness for the class of preferences that are represented by the subjective expected utility. This note shows that this equivalence holds for a larger class of preferences, namely maxmin$maxmin$ expected utility.     

Effects of US interest rates and news on the daily interest rates of a highly indebted emerging economy: evidence from Turkey

It has been widely demonstrated that asset prices react sensitively to macroeconomic news releases both in the industrialized countries and emerging markets. However, there are contradicting results on the effects of changes in interest rates of industrialized countries on asset prices of emerging markets. In heavily indebted economies, in addition to these factors, political news and announcements from international institutions that may increase or decrease concerns about debt sustainability can affect asset prices as well. This potential notwithstanding, there has been relatively limited empirical work on the effects of such variables. The objective of this study is to quantify the impact of all of these factors on interest rates of a highly indebted emerging economy. Using daily post-crisis data of the Turkish economy we show that both good and bad political news, International Monetary Fund announcements, and European Union related news significantly affected secondary market government securities yields, whereas volatility of yields was affected mainly by bad news releases. Changes in US Treasury bond rates and ‘appetite’ for risk of foreign investors did not affect government securities yields in the period analysed.