广州市番禺区大岗镇农民工出租屋调查

在对广州市番禺区大岗镇农民工主要居住形式--出租屋进行了实地调查的基础上,研究了农民工出租屋的发展历程、建设和配套设施情况、各相关利益主体闻的关系、出租屋市场、政府对出租屋管理服务等诸多方面.出租屋是在快速城市化进程中用市场化手段解决农民工居住问题的一种方式,存在一定的合理性,但也存在着缺乏统一规划、基础设施和公共服务配套不完善、管理法律法规不健全、联动管理机制还没有形成、存在政策性障碍等困难和问题.有关农民工出租屋的政策建议是:科学制定规划、加快集体建设用地改革、建立健全有关出租屋管理服务的法律法规、强化农民工出租屋的管理服务等.     

深化户籍制度改革与农民工市民化

当前户籍制度改革还称不上是一次彻底的、成功的改革,与加速农民工市民化和城市化、城乡一体化的要求还有不少差距,它降低了农民工市民化的意愿和能力,提高了农民工市民化的门槛和成本,人为地造成了农民工和城市居民的对立,成为阻碍农民工市民化进程的制度瓶颈.深化户籍制度改革,必须以去利益化、城乡一体化、迁徙自由化为目标和方向,在中央的统一规划下,剥离户口所附着的福利功能,恢复户籍制度的本真功能,同时改革嵌入户籍制度之中的其他二元制度,整体推进.     

Trends in occupational sex segregation in Hong Kong

This study investigates the recent trends in occupational sex segregation in Hong Kong. It employs census data for 1991 and 1996 on the occupational distribution by sex to construct several segregation indexes. Based on these indexes, the relative impacts of the changes in the employment structure and in the gender composition of jobs are evaluated. The concentration of men and women in the occupational structure is also examined. It is found that economic restructuring in Hong Kong has brought about subtle changes in the pattern of occupational sex segregation over time. Specifically, the growth of managerial and professional occupations has facilitated the entry of young and better-educated women into these prestigious jobs. The expansion of low-level service jobs has also absorbed a great number of middle-aged women moving from the declining manufacturing sector. Finally, some policy and organizational implications are discussed.     

解决农民工住房问题的总体思路和政策框架

解决农民工住房问题对于我国经济社会可持续发展具有重大意义。目前,农民工住房总体还处于市场失灵和政府失灵并存的状态。应加快建立农民工住房供应体系和住房保障体系,逐步完善住房公积金制度、住房补贴制度、财税支持制度、金融服务制度、土地供应制度、规划保障制度相互补充的农民工住房政策体系,使进城农民工的住房条件尽快改善。     

农民工安全生产心理探讨与研究

在工程建设施工事故中,农民工往往既是事故的受害者又是事故的直接引发者,其绝大部分事故是由于农民工的不安全行为造成的,而人的不安全行为是与人当时的意识心理状态有密切的联系。因此,从农民工的心理因素来探讨事故的成因,并运用心理的技术来预防及控制事故的发生,对安全生产有重要意义。     

Has Labour Paid for the Liberalisation of European civil aviation?

Work and employment has been transformed by the competitive forces unleashed by liberalisation and the creation of a Single European Aviation Market (SEAM). The SEAM has led to benefits for passengers and for many local economies. However, the claim that liberalisation has also been good for labour is one that is contradicted by the deterioration of aircrews' terms and conditions of employment and the erosion of workers’ ability to defend contractual terms and professional standards.     

Disentangling organizational commitment in hospitality industry: The roles of empowerment,enrichment, satisfaction and gender

This Paper identifies how the motivational strategies of empowerment and enrichment affect on the organizational commitment of hotel staff, and how the job satisfaction mediates in these relationships. We applied a Structural Equations Modeling to a sample of 257 front line hotel employees from Madrid, of which 144 were men and 113 were women. Our results provide evidence about several contributions: first, employees empowerment significantly grows job enrichment and organizational commitment; second, job enrichment increase workers’ satisfaction and commitment; third, job satisfaction enhances organizational commitment; fourth, job enrichment plays a mediating role between empowerment and both satisfaction and organizational commitment; fifth, satisfaction mediates between enrichment and commitment; finally, gender moderates the relationship between enrichment and commitment.     

The challenges of global capitalism: unemployment and state workers' reactions and responses in post-reform China

As China enters the twenty-first year of reform, the success of its economic policies has been widely recognized. But what is also true is that economic reforms initiated in the past decades, particularly the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, have inevitably marginalized state workers - the 'masters of socialist China'. Workers in private and non-state sectors might have benefited from the economic reforms but state workers of most state-owned enterprises feel bitterly left behind. The aim of this article is to examine the perception of state workers of the causes of organizational difficulties, their worries in face of redundancy and their coping strategies. Observations made in this study are based on field interviews and questionnaire survey of 649 state workers in Beijing, Shenyang and Zhejiang from 1996 to 1999.     

The new rurality: Globalization,peasants and the paradoxes of landscapes

Deforestation captures most of the headlines, but there are also processes of forest expansion that are widespread in Latin America. This paper explores why this process is so invisible. Globalization plays an increasingly important role in structuring rural economies. This paper analyses how global integration of many types, ranging from remittances, state transfers, skilling and markets produced forest recovery in peasant landscapes.