The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Marriage Migration*

We investigate the effect of immigrants’ marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform that generated exogenous variation in marriage behavior by a complete abolishment of marriage migration for immigrants below 24 years. The reform influenced immigrants from countries with a high historical rate of marriage migration more than immigrants from country groups with a low rate. We find that the dropout rate for males increases by 25 percentage points as a consequence of marriage to a marriage migrant, whereas the effect for females is small and mostly insignificant.     

我国无效婚姻立法之问题疏理与破解路径

我国无效婚姻的立法不完善，是实务案件审理难的主要症结。未来立法修改时，应当增设原则规范，以弥补类型列举的疏漏；明确对过错方的责任认定和对无过错方的损害赔偿；检察院参与诉讼，保证无被申请人的诉讼中各方利益关系人的合法权益；区分婚姻不成立与婚姻的无效和可撤销。同时，加快家事诉讼立法，以统一的、专门的程序处理包括无效婚姻和可撤销婚姻在内的婚姻家庭纠纷。     

Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction in Korea: When Gender Matters

Using detailed longitudinal data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) from 1998 to 2008, this paper finds significant gender differences in impacts as well as adaptation patterns to major life and labor market events in Korea. Men remain on a higher happiness level throughout marriage, while women return to their baseline happiness within only two years. Consequently, men suffer more from divorce and the death of a spouse. This marital gender happiness gap is equivalent to a (husband only) increase of annual per capita household income of approximately US$17,800. The study further finds that men suffer more from unemployment. Results are robust to the inclusion of multiple simultaneous events and the use of different estimators.     

Income and Quality of Life: Does the Love of Money Make a Difference?

This paper examines a model of income and quality of life that controls the love of money, job satisfaction, gender, and marital status and treats employment status (full-time versus part-time), income level, and gender as moderators. For the whole sample, income was not significantly related to quality of life when this path was examined alone. When all variables were controlled, income was negatively related to quality of life. When (1) the love of money was negatively correlated to job satisfaction and (2) job satisfaction was positively related to both income and quality of life, income was negatively related to quality of life for full-time, high-income, and male employees. When these two conditions failed to exist, income was not related to quality of life for part-time, median- or low-income, and female employees. This model provides new insights regarding the impact of the love of money and job satisfaction on the income–quality of life relationship. Thomas Li-Ping Tang (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University) is a Full Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 37132. He has taught Industrial and Organizational Psychology at National Taiwan University and at MTSU. Professor Tang teaches (has taught) EMBA courses in China and France. He serves (has served) on the editorial review board of six journals and as a reviewer for 26 journals around the world. Professor Tang’s research interests focus upon people’s work motivation, compensation, money attitudes, the Love of Money, pay satisfaction, turnover, stress, and cross-cultural issues. He has published more than 100 journal articles in top behavior sciences and management journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Management Research, Management and Organization Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Managerial Psychology, European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Higher Education, and others. He has presented more than 185 papers in professional conferences and invited seminars in Austria, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, the US, and other countries. His research has been cited in many languages, textbooks of several fields (e.g., Management Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Compensation, and Statistics), and popular books. He was the winner of two Outstanding Research Awards (1991, 1999), and Distinguished International Service Award (1999) at Middle Tennessee State University. He also received the Best Reviewer Award from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management in Seattle, WA (2003).     

The Effect of Brand Engagement and Brand Love upon Overall Brand Equity and Purchase Intention: A Moderated –Mediated Model

Abstract

In their quest for retaining or enhancing their overall brand equity, firms engage with their customers. This study investigates if brand engagement blossoms in brand love and the combined effect of brand engagement and brand love upon overall brand equity and purchase intention. A two stage analysis was done on data collected from 548 respondents through a self administered questionnaire. In the first stage the measurement model was checked for reliability and validity, while in the second one, the strength of the relationships was ascertained in the structural model. The study enables an in-depth understanding of the antecedents of brand equity. It provides valuable theoretical insights on the determinants of brand equity formation. At the same time, it explores the effect of socio demographic variables like gender and usage. Brand love and overall brand equity mediate relationships. This study proposes a new branding model by simultaneously integrating variables that have been previously researched upon; brand love, brand experience, overall brand equity and purchase intention as one comprehensive model. This paper confirms that brand love and brand engagement are second order constructs and important brand mix elements. Brand engagement and brand love relationship is moderated by usage and gender.     

金圣叹“才子情结”评析

金圣叹是明清之际的一个传奇人物,他因文学批评和“哭庙案”而名扬天下,然而本人又是一个极富争议的人物,无论生前死后,扬之者对其崇拜得五体投地,尊之如“神仙中人”;抑之者“见其书、闻其行,必欲杀之”而后快。通过对金圣叹“才子情结”及其心路历程的探究,并结合当时的社会历史背景,从另一个侧面深入,以期对这个历史人物有一个更加客观、立体化的认识。     

Where has all the gender gone?

What questions should economists be asking when looking at how markets affect women? This comment expands on a debate begun on Femecon-l and continued in the “Debating Markets” article.     

浅谈当代女大学生恋爱观的塑造

当代大学生谈恋爱的现象越来越普遍,女大学生作为未来知识女性的代表,她们的恋爱观和情感现状更应引人关注。高校女大学生恋爱观的主流是积极健康的,但也存在不少问题,本文分析了当代大学女生恋爱观的现状和形成原因以及引发的一系列问题,并提出相关举措使女大学生树立正确的恋爱观,从而为做好大学生的思想工作提供可靠依据,对于学生个人的身心健康、和谐校园、和谐社会的构建都具有重要作用。     

关于宁波市高职女生婚恋观的调查

目前，高职院校的女生人数占学生总人数都已经超过50％，其年龄一般在18岁至25岁之间。这个年龄段正是婚恋观逐步走向成熟的年龄。正确的婚恋观关系能影响到女性一生的幸福，非常值得关注思考。为了了解宁波市高职女生的婚恋观．我们调查了宁波市5所高职院校，分别就恋爱、婚姻和性爱三方面对5所高职女生进行调查以获得对这些院校女生的婚恋观一些探讨，更好地为高职教育提供参考。     

基于爱心责任心培养的大学生社会实践研究

随着高等教育的大众化,社会实践已成为促进新时期大学生成长的重要途径。本文通过全面了解目前各高校大学生社会实践的开展情况,研究了大学生社会实践的德育功能以及目前社会实践在爱心责任心培养上存在的现状。探讨了如何以社会实践为载体,通过完善社会实践模式和评价机制,最大限度地发挥育人功能,帮助大学生增强爱心责任心、扩展视野、提高核心竞争力。