Marriage Settlements

French couples may choose between two types of marriage settlements governing asset ownership after a divorce or inheritance: common property or separate property. A cooperative model considers the marriage contract as a means of providing for widowhood of the less endowed spouse. A second model addresses the probability of divorce and the production of a marriage good. The common property contract then becomes a means of inducing the wife to invest in the marriage good. Choice of contract, labor supply and fertility are simultaneous. Empirically we find that characteristics of the spouses such as relative age or differences in endowments influence the choice. So do the expected number of children and the wife's labor supply decision. This last decision is also shown to be influenced by the chosen settlement, while fertility is not.
JEL classification : J 12; J 4; K 12     

Do Germans Save to Leave an Estate? An Examination of the Bequest Motive

I investigate whether a bequest motive for savings influences the post-retirement wealth trajectories of German households. Two measures of the bequest motive are studied: the existence of children as the main group of potential heirs and the respondents' declared intention to bequeath. While having children has no significant impact on households' wealth trajectories, stated bequest intentions are associated with considerable heterogeneity in wealth holdings. The main conclusion from this study is that both the pure life-cycle model and the life-cycle model with bequest motives provide a valid basis for a theory of household wealth accumulation once the heterogeneity of preferences is acknowledged.
JEL classification : D 91; J 14     

论我国非公有制经济发展的动力机制转换

我国非公有制经济发展的启动力量和扩张动力，一直主要源于政府的安排和推动。由于外部环境和内部实力的深刻变化，这种以政府为主导的外生动力机制的延续，对非公有制经济的主体意识、微观经营机制、市场空间扩张与力量壮大，均产生诸多消极影响。转换动力机制，激活并充分发挥其内在动力，是市场经济条件下实现非公有制经济持续、健康、快速发展的客观要求。     

对ESOP激励有效性的质疑

本文提出在ESOP实施过程中存在着员工持股股份占企业总股份的比例较低;员工个人持股比例很低的现状,并针对这种现状,质疑“有效员工激励”是否能够实现。本文将结合模型,主要从ESOP是否能增加员工有形动力和是否能增加员工无形动力两个方面来具体阐述自己的观点。     

包含制度因素的我国城市化动力机制的实证分析

从宏观方面讲,我国城市化的动力机制主要包括产业结构转换力与制度和政策调控力。按照三次产业推动城市化的逻辑顺序,可以将产业结构转换力分为第一产业发展形成的推动城市化的初始动力,工业化推进形成的二级动力,以及第三产业发展形成的后续动力。它们与制度和政策调控力一起,成为推动我国城市化的主要动力因素。通过对各动力因素进行指标体系的构建,从定量研究的角度,分析了各动力因素对我国城市人口增长的影响。     

我国新型工业化的发展研究

新型工业化是21世纪提升我国国际竞争力的必然选择,其核心是以先进的信息技术改造、提升传统产业,以信息化带动工业化。本文论述了新型工业化与传统工业化的主要区别;分析了新型工业化的动力机制;阐述了符合我国国情的新型工业化之路。     

人力资本多层次激励机制探析

人力资本是企业生产经营过程中最活跃和最特殊的要素,人力资本具有多层次性,不同的人力资本应采取不同的激励措施。笔者在结合国有企业运营实践的基础上对人力资本激励机制进行分析,并进一步提出了建立国有企业多层次人力资本激励机制的有效模式。     

To push performance,check the leader’s power motive

The power motive, defined as the desire to impact the behavior and emotions of another person, has long been controversial. On one side, the exercise of power has been put forth as a fundamental human need greater in strength than the need to survive. On the other, it has been vilified for its potentially devastating consequences. We argue the latter view is distorted, and, by relying too heavily on it, we have come to misunderstand the essential nature of power and its use by leaders charged with driving performance. It is not the power motive that leads to corruption and tyranny, but rather how the power motive is channeled into behavior by other personality factors. Consequently, those charged with leader selection should place greater emphasis on how individuals with strong power motives differ in how they channel power. Doing so will support the selection of executives best equipped to deliver organizational performance.     

Celebrity endorsements: Investigating the interactive effects of internalization,identification and product type on consumers’ attitudes and intentions

In line with Kang and Herr's work (2006), this research questions the ELM's contention that celebrity credibility serves foremost as a peripheral element in a persuasive communication context. Nevertheless, in a different light to the Kang and Herr's ‘either-central-or-peripheral-role’ of a source characteristic, this research advances that celebrity credibility plays concomitantly central and peripheral roles in a persuasive message context depending on product involvement and brand-purchase motive. Particularly, this research uses the notions of ‘source internalization’ and ‘source identification’ (Kelman, 1961) to theorize that source credibility can have a concomitant dual role (peripheral and central) in a persuasion context. More precisely, this research investigates the interactive effects of source identification and internalization with product involvement as well as brand-purchase motives on consumers' attitudes and intentions. Source internalization is predicted to have persuasive effects in the contexts of high-involvement as well as informational products. Source identification is predicted to have persuasive effects in the context of low-involvement as well as transformational products. The findings of two experiments show that celebrity credibility acts through only a single route (i.e., only internalization has persuasive effects) uniformly across different product involvement levels and brand-purchase motive types. We interpret these results with the lens of the ‘match-up’ hypothesis (Kamins, 1990).     

我国成人高等教育转型过程中的动力研究

我国成人高等教育转型过程中的动力主要来自于:社会变革的推力、成人学习需求的拉力、教育竞争的压力和成人高等教育自身利益的驱力,这四方面的力共同构成了成人高等教育转型的基本推动力量。