Perceptions of casino dealers toward organizational justice: Are there any gender differences?

The emphasis on equity and diversity is vital for businesses to flourish. Promoting workplace equality, essential to enhance employees' satisfaction in delivering excellent service quality, requires understanding of the perception of employees as well as the problems they face. This study examines whether gender equality exists among frontline casino employees, the degree to which inequality is experienced and the consequence of such perceptions, through face-to-face, in-depth interviews with the dealers in Macao. The theory of organizational justice is adopted. Results revealed that perceived inequality and injustices were stronger among the male dealers. Male dealers perceived stronger distributive and procedural injustices than females, while female dealers perceived stronger interactional injustice than males. The perceived injustices resulted in various negative work attitudes among employees. Recommendations to improve work attitudes and counterbalance the inequities are proposed.     

Market structure and casino taxation in tourist resorts

This article examines the association of tax effects with market structure for casino gaming. We show that if market structure is uncompetitive, much of casino taxation falls on tourists whose demand is inelastic relative to supply. The tax is likely to be efficient under strong external demand if imposed on oligopoly casinos with a monopoly location in a cross-border market. The likelihood of economically ‘good’ taxation is greater under oligopoly than under competition but lower than under monopoly. Casino taxes should be lowered in a more competitive market with weaker external demand. Our prediction is consistent with the evidence found from casino tourism development in Macao with ‘high’ gambling taxes.     

Travel Behaviors of Mainland Chinese Visitors to Macao

This study empirically identifies variations in traveling patterns underlying the second wave of the Chinese outbound tourism market. Targeting visitors to Macao (Special Administrative Region), this study examined respondents’ traveling behaviors with data collected from three continuous large-scale surveys. Results reaffirmed the conceptually repeated, but not empirically verified, viewpoint that the Chinese market is evolving. Specifically, there has been a surging interest in self-organizing trips with smaller groups, skipping pre-trip planning, and last-minute booking (i.e. walk-ins). Conversely, mainland Chinese showed less interest in gaming-related activities. Implications and suggestions are offered accordingly.     

混合所有制经济有效推动了城市经济增长吗？

基于混合寡占模型的分析表明,所有制经济多样化程度越高,混合市场的经济产出越高。采用中国255个地级以上城市2003—2013年的面板数据,以四种经济类型规模以上工业产值比的平方和构造所有制多样化指标,通过分位数回归分析实证检验多样化所有制结构以及不同所有制经济对城市经济增长的长短期效应及其区域差异,结果表明：混合所有制经济确实能够有效推动中国的城市经济增长,国有经济对城市经济增长的推动作用具有全国普遍性,但私营经济、港澳台经济以及外商经济对城市经济增长推动的区域差异性较大。发展混合所有制经济,对于中国市场经济的发展有着重大的积极意义,但目前混合市场的发展程度具有明显的区域差异性,应在合适的地区选择合适的产业发展混合所有制经济。     

Casino tourism,economic inequality,and housing bubbles

Potential linkages among tourism, inequality, and housing are addressed for an integrated analysis in this paper, with Macao treated as a typical case. Casino tourism, albeit performing as a major key to local economic growth, is ultimately vulnerable to external shocks to gambling demand, as evidenced by the current sharp downturn in Macao. We find that faster gaming growth leads to higher income inequality while at the same time both factors are responsible for soaring housing bubbles, which constitute the very source of social tensions as in Macao. Casino tourism if not well managed may not be a panacea for all development goals. The implication for policy derived from this study is that Macao must deal with underlying issues rather than apply palliative measures. Its market failures may necessitate government interventions to ensure social equity and sustainable tourism.     

Tour guides' interpretation of the Historic Center of Macao as a World Cultural Heritage site

Literature review suggests that little attention is paid to the interpretation of a World Cultural Heritage (WCH) ensemble such as the Historic Center of Macao (HCM). The present study aims to investigate tour guides' interpretation of the HCM and how their interpretation affects tourists' appreciation and understanding of a visited heritage site within the HCM, as well as tourists' interest in other under-used HCM sites. Methodologies include in-depth interviews with tour guides, on-site observations of tour guides and surveys of package group tourists. The findings indicate that tour guides tended to interpret an HCM heritage site as an independent WCH site. In turn, this results in tourists' misunderstanding of Macao's WCH and a lower level of authentic experience at the visited heritage site. It is advocated that the interpretation of any one heritage site of the HCM should connect to the HCM ensemble and other heritage sites within the HCM. The inter-cultural relationship among the heritage sites should be further explored and highlighted in narratives.     

港澳网络统战的系统观照——兼谈高校的网络统战工作

随着互联网的迅猛发展,积极推进网络统战工作是新世纪新阶段港澳统战形势的迫切要求。通过拓展网络统战工作,发挥高校统战工作优势,将能进一步做好港澳人心回归工作,更好地巩固和发展港澳爱国统一战线。     

澳门博彩业的利益相关者：分析与建议

利益相关者理论认为,企业(行业)长期的繁荣和发展,需要辨识主要的利益相关者,分析他们的利益和关注点并加以考虑。澳门博彩业的最大利益相关者是澳门博彩业的投资者、博彩消费者、澳门社区和中央政府。为保持澳门博彩产业的长期繁荣和稳定发展,澳门特区政府和博彩企业需要综合平衡他们的利益。     

澳门回归后的对外贸易结构

文章利用翔实的时间序列数据,对澳门回归祖国后的对外贸易结构进行了全面的分析,挖掘出澳门货物贸易逆差的深层次原因是经济结构单一化和制造业萎缩,并提出澳门贸易结构升级的策略选择为政策支持及区域经济合作。     

香港基本法与澳门基本法之比较谈

基于香港、澳门两部基本法的制定具有共同的立法依据和历史背景，两部基本法存在一些相同点，因为两地实际情况存在差异，两部基本法又有许多不同点。为了更好地贯彻实施两部基本法，必须了解两部基本法之间的异同点。