基于性别差异的女性农民工劳动权益保障研究

我国劳动力市场中,女性农民工经常遭受性别歧视,其劳动权益屡屡遭受到侵害。国外对妇女劳动权益的保障主要有立法措施和暂行特别措施,这些措施为我国在保护女性农民工劳动权益方面提供了成功的经验,值得决策者决策时借鉴。     

经济开发区技能型人才培养研究——以鄱阳湖生态经济区为例

随着鄱阳湖生态经济区的构建与发展,制造业、服务业等二、三产业得到了较快发展,从而使技能型人才的需求量变得越来越大。当前,区域内技能型人才的匮乏已经影响到鄱阳湖生态经济区区域经济的更好发展。本文结合实际,剖析了鄱阳湖生态经济区技能型人才培养的现状,并提出了加强鄱阳湖生态经济区技能型人才培养的路径选择。     

浅谈响水矿回风斜巷掘进工作面临时支护方式及应用

煤矿巷道掘进过程中,工作面临时支护安全问题是困扰煤炭生产多年的一项技术难题。应该本着科学规范、先进、实用的理念设计巷道掘进工作面的临时支护结构,保证岩体稳固,减少顶板冒落事故。煤矿掘进树锚支护中采用打设点锚进行临时支护,是对破碎围岩进行有效控制,保证掘进工作面安全施工的关键。     

When Borch's Theorem Does Not Apply: Some Key Implications of Market Incompleteness,with Policy Relevance Today

Markets are incomplete when the assets available to the agents do not span the space of future contingencies. In that case, competitive equilibria on the markets for assets and commodities fail (generically) to be constrained efficient. Pareto‐superior allocations can be implemented through price/wage rigidities and quantity constraints. However, nominal rigidities are conducive to multiple equilibria, implying endogenous macroeconomic uncertainties that compound the primitive (exogenous) uncertainties. This paper defines a temporary general equilibrium for which there exists a set of equilibria defining an inflation – unemployment locus. Various policy implications are drawn, with relevance to the current crisis.     

Understanding the international mobility of Chinese temporary workers

Using unique panel data on the temporary movement of Chinese workers to 191 economies during 1992–2015, I investigate the patterns and determinants of labour mobility in the services trade. I estimate a gravity model of labour mobility in two categories, namely overseas labour services and overseas contracted projects. I find that distance (proxy for migration costs) and income are not the most important determinants of the latter. For overseas contracted projects, the dispatch of workers is not driven by their pure economic aims but by the Chinese government's policies and strategies such as its overseas project promotion policy. Furthermore, I employ the difference‐in‐differences estimation method to investigate the impact of this policy upon labour mobility. The results show that the policy of promoting overseas contracted projects has causal and positive effects on labour mobility in construction‐related sectors.     

Determinants of return migration intentions: Evidence from Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa

This paper uses a dataset of Zimbabwean migrants living in South Africa to examine the determinants of the probability of their returning to their country of origin. It analyses migrants' return migration intentions using a logistic regression that examines 10 demographic and socioeconomic factors. Six factors – reason for migrating, the number of dependants supported in the home country, the level of education, economic activity in the host country, the level of income and the duration of stay in the host country – are found to be statistically significant determinants of the return migration intentions. The main policy implication of these findings is that the chances of attracting back skills are high if political and economic stability can be achieved.     

Time‐use and well‐being impacts of travel‐to‐work and travel‐for‐work

This article contributes to our understanding of the complex patterns of travel‐to‐work and travel‐for‐work which increasingly characterise highly skilled employment, using 2015 data from a UK Midlands study comprising an online survey and follow‐up interviews. Travel‐to‐work essentially lengthens the working day, and is difficult to use productively, especially when commuting by car. Travel‐for‐work, by contrast, results in intense schedules especially when requiring overnight stays. Ownership of travel‐for‐work is ambiguous: it is employer driven, and travel time is often spent productively using mobile technologies, but is rarely rewarded with TOIL. While general dissatisfaction is reported with the commute, negative effects of travel‐for‐work (family, health, reduced leisure time) are mediated by positive impacts including experience of new working cultures, and infrequency of travel. Four factors appear central to the differing well‐being impacts: (1) frequency of travel; (2) ability to plan travel; (3) productive use of travel time, and; (4) reciprocal benefits of travel.