关于建设社会主义新农村的思考

建设社会主义新农村是我国现代化进程中的重大历史任务。建设社会主义新农村急需做好以下基础工作:统筹兼顾, 把新农村建设纳入经济和社会发展的总体规划;调整结构,因地制宜发展特色农业,促进农村劳动力充分就业;加强农村教育, 提高农民科技文化素养;提高组织化程度,扩大生产经营的规模和范围;加强农村基础设施建设,有规划地改善农村人居环境; 推进农村精神文明建设,创建和谐农村社会等。     

A Case of Sticky Floors: Gender Wage Differentials in Thailand

Using 2004 Household Socio‐Economic Survey data for Thailand, we explore the gender wage differentials across the entire unconditional wage distribution and find a strong sticky floor effect. Glass ceilings, although observed along with sticky floors in the raw data and pooled regressions, disappear in the counterfactual decompositions, suggesting a strong sticky floor pattern in gender wage differentials in Thailand. Whereas the evidence for most European countries points to glass ceilings, our findings for Thailand are qualitatively similar to those from other South Asian and Southeast Asian countries for which evidence exists; namely, Singapore, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.     

Income Level and the Value of Non-Wage Employee Benefits

With continuing increases in the cost of medical insurance and other “fringe” benefits, payroll cost for monetary and non-monetary aspects of compensation is a significant factor for most organizations. While this is not a new phenomenon, relatively few studies in the empirical literature have examined the role of fringe benefits in employee compensation plans. Especially in under researched areas, it is imperative that researchers utilize ideas and theories from other disciplines to further our knowledge. Accordingly, this paper borrows the concept of elasticity from the economic literature to help explain and understand employee perceptions of two of the most common, costly, and important benefits—medical insurance and retirement plans. Specifically, the relationship between the current income of employees is analyzed in relation to employee perceptions of the value and importance of benefits. Results suggest that employees do not value medical insurance and retirement plans in the same manner. This result is interpreted in terms of the change in the marginal utility of the specific benefit.     

Sticky Information Phillips Curves: European Evidence

We estimate the Sticky Information Phillips Curve model of Mankiw and Reis (2002) using survey expectations of professional forecasters from four major European economies. Our estimates imply that inflation expectations in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom are updated about once a year, while in Italy, about once each 6 months.     

Investigating the consumer–environment interaction through image modelling technologies

Abstract

This study uses an innovative research tool to evaluate the hypothesis of a consumer–environment interaction. A new computer graphics methodology keeps track of the time spent and the number of purchases made during shopping, together with several other behavioural measures. A laboratory experiment uncovered an interaction effect in dwell time and number of purchases between the type of shopping trip (fill-in trip vs. major trip) and the consumers' layout preference. Shoppers taking major trips were more prone to shop in a free-form layout, whereas those taking fill-in trips tended to prefer a grid layout. The article discusses implications for research and practice, identifying areas for future research.     

突发公共事件应急预案评估及预警警示分析

对突发公共事件应急预案进行客观准确的评估,是保证预案能够取得理想处置效果的关键.为此引入模糊综合评价方法对预案进行评估,为科学定量评价应急预案提供一个新思路.对突发公共事件的应急预案评估以后,参照警情的限度和等级及时做出警报,预先发出警报,指导人们有效地应对突发公共事件,减少应急的迟滞性和盲目性.     

Monetary Impacts and Overshooting of Agricultural Prices in an Open Economy

This article's focus is on the time adjustment paths of the exchange rate and prices in response to unanticipated monetary shocks. First, we expand the theoretical specification of the overshooting hypothesis by generalizing Dornbusch's model to include a third sector (i.e., agricultural prices). Second, we employ Johansen's cointegration test along with a vector error correction model to investigate whether agricultural prices overshoot in an open economy. The empirical results indicate that agricultural prices adjust faster than industrial prices to innovations in the money supply, affecting relative prices in the short run, but strict long-run money neutrality does not hold.     

环境工程专业课程设置学生评价调查与探讨

本文介绍了南京工程环境工程专业课程设置基本情况,与一些兄弟院校环境工程专业做比较;介绍调研采用的网络问卷,并针对调查结果进行分析,得出本专业学生对专业课程满意度和期望度,并对应环境工程专业人才培养方案,对部分已开设课程做相应改动,对部分未开设课程做相应补充。     

谈对高职教师绩效评估考核体系的认识

文章主要分析目前高职院校绩效评估考核体系中存在的不足,并提出优化方案。     

基于组织粘弹性的企业危机形成机理探讨

文章研究了企业组织的类生物特性,提出了企业组织的粘弹性概念,并以此为基础建立了环境外力作用下的企业危机产生机理模型,和减少企业危机产生的权变分析框架。研究结果表明,企业的低弹性和高粘性是导致危机产生的主要原因;在未来变化越来越快和竞争越来越激烈的市场环境中,具备高弹性低粘性特征的企业更容易生存。