EARNINGS INEQUALITY, LABOUR SUPPLY AND SCHOOLING IN HUSBAND–WIFE FAMILIES

This paper describes the association between market work and earnings inequality across families over the life cycle and over calendar time with special attention to the different experiences of college‐educated and high‐school‐educated people. A concise and effective accounting framework is developed that allows for an assessment of the effect of the growing market employment of married women on family earnings inequality. Applying this framework to pseudo‐panel data from successive Current Population Surveys indicates that the increase in wives' employment has diminished the growth in family earnings inequality especially for well‐educated couples. Inferences about the level and change in earnings inequality depend on the degree of labor market attachment of the people studied especially in the case of wives.     

基于场控理论的区域社会经济系统运行管理问题初探

系统科学的产生，使人们对研究对象的认识及研究方法和思路发生了根本性的变化。文章以系统科学为基础，在全面分析系统构成及系统功能势态演化基础上，对系统场及系统场控的作用机理进行了研究，规划和设计了区域社会经济系统运行的系统场控功能，构建了确保地区社会经济系统协调运行的管理机制总体框架，旨在为地区社会经济系统的持续发展和管理监控提供了现实可操作性的参考依据。     

知识溢出与区域经济增长的关系研究综述

在知识溢出与区域经济增长的关系上，存在MAR溢出、雅各布斯溢出、波特溢出三种不同的观点。MAR假说偏爱低竞争与产业专业化；波特也偏爱专业化，但赞成高竞争；而雅各布斯赞同高竞争与产业多样化。这三种假说都得到了实证经验的支持，结论差异的原因在于使用的方法、样本的时间和变量选取、研究的国家或地区的特征与产业不同。     

Discrimination in Employment Provisions in the Mexican Federal Labor Law

The discrimination in employment provisions in employment provisions in the Mexican Federal Labor Law (FLL) are surveyed in a general overview. Employment discrimination in Mexico under the FLL is generally proscribed but is mandated in a limited number of instances. Discriminatory violations can induce various sanctions against transgressing Mexican employers.     

Employment and wage dynamics in Estonia, 1989-951

This study monitors the effects of economic transition on wages and employment in a former Soviet Republic. Estonia's case is of particular interest because of its early adoption of relatively free labour market policies. Relative wages for the highest educated groups rose for all age groups. There were also rapid increases in returns to job experience, particularly at young ages. Increasing wage dispersion across human capital groups was accompanied by narrowing wage dispersion within human capital groups. Relative wages rose in sectors which gained relative employment, while they fell in shrinking sectors. In addition, there were large flows of labour between shrinking and growing sectors, suggesting that labour market equilibrating mechanisms developed very rapidly in Estonia.     

Evaluation of investment subsidies: when is deadweight zero?

In the evaluation of investment subsidies one of the critical issues concerns the assessment of deadweight, that is, the degree to which projects would have been carried out without grant assistance. With the increasing restrictions on and cuts in subsidies for investment projects in the EU countries maximisation of the impact of the public resources that remain can be achieved through their allocation for projects with minimum deadweight. This paper studies the profile of subsidised zero deadweight investment projects – projects that would be abandoned without public subsidies – in Finland. The empirical analysis is conducted using micro level data on investment projects by private sector firms. The data set comprises 3,423 projects that were granted public investment subsidies between 2001 and 2003. Our results show that the likelihood of zero deadweight is significantly dependent on the characteristics of the subsidised firm, the characteristics of the investment project and the location of the subsidised firm.     

河南省劳务品牌培育的创新途径研究

品牌竞争是市场竞争的高级阶段和综合形式。河南省剩余劳动力转移的重要途径是劳务输出,劳务品牌是提升劳务输出和劳务经济的有效途径。劳务品牌需要培育和经营,品牌意识、政府作用、品牌宣传等是培育劳务品牌的创新途径。     

Test validation from a conceptual and legal perspective: Issues and trends

A little-explored issue in the psychological and legal literature involves test validation. This article discusses issues of test validation from both psychological and legal perspectives. Areas of inconsistency are noted and probable future directions are high-lighted.     

南盛镇新农村建设过程中人力资源开发研究

文章根据南盛镇在劳动力开发中所出现的人力资源的产业配置不合理、组织体系不健全以及投入不足等问题，需要采取增加职业技术教育和医疗保健投入、组建学习型的组织、人力资源的产业合理配置、集约化经营、边干边学边开发、增加城市向农村劳动力的溢出效应等措施来提高该镇农村人力资源开发的效率。