Family Cap and Nonmarital Fertility: The Racial Conditioning of Policy Effects

Using an experimental design, this research examines the effect of the nation's first family cap on the births, abortions, and contraception use of over 8,000 women receiving public assistance in New Jersey. The family cap denies additional cash benefits to children conceived while the mother is receiving public assistance. Our research shows that a targeted welfare benefit manipulation does influence fertility behavior; however, the effect is conditioned by race. We find that Black women in the experimental group have a 21% lower birth rate and a 32% higher abortion rate than Black women in the control group. We do not find a birth effect for Hispanic or White women. We discuss the policy implications of the effects of a segmented family cap.     

Trade-Offs Between Formal Home Health Care and Informal Family CareGiving

Using 1994 National Long Term Care Survey data, we estimated logistic regressions of formal and informal home health care use and hours. Home health care use and intensity were differentially impacted by chronic conditions, are higher for Medicaid enrollees and rural or small town residents, but lower for HMO enrollees. Decreases in the probability of home health care use increased informal instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) support four hours and decreased informal activities of daily living (ADL) support eight hours weekly. IADL caregiving substituted for formal care, but ADL caregiving declined with reductions in formal care. Public policy reducing formal home health care access may reduce informal ADL caregiving and increase informal IADL caregiving, producing net declines in support.     

MAS环境下实现Agent交互协作的关键技术

讨论了MAS环境下实现Agent交互协作的关键性问题。在分析Agent协同设计目标的基础上,将遗传算法应用于子任务的调度,提高了Agent协同工作的效率。应用Agent的通信语言建立了一个基于知识查询与操纵语言的Agent通信模型,通过引入Agent位置追踪和Agent消息缓存机制解决了Agent移动过程中遇到的位置追踪和通信失效问题。     

社会资本与我国家族企业的发展

改革开放以来,我国家族企业迅速崛起。此现象按新古典经济学的理论无法解释,因为家族企业创业时既缺少物质资本,又缺少人力资本,也没有技术支持,甚至连存在的合法性都成问题。其实,经济增长不仅需要物质资本和人力资本,还需要社会资本。家族企业之所以在夹缝中突起,很大程度依靠其深厚的社会资本。但也要看到,如果社会资本不能应经济发展而提高,就可能走向反面,成为家族企业发展的障碍。     

Working Time,Gender and Family: An East‐West European Comparison

This article provides a comparison of three West European countries with five Central East European countries in respect of working time and the integration of work and family life. The countries are the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK in West Europe and Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia in Central East Europe. As well as providing an East–West comparison, the article also takes into account the differing institutional and policy contexts in the selected countries and the different routes to flexibility. A further aim of the article is to extend our understanding of the culture and values which underpin the organization of family and work in each country. Whilst there is a clear East–West divide, all eight countries demonstrate diverse routes to flexibility and different mixes of social policies and gender cultures which have lead to considerable differences in the integration of work and family life.     

管理沟通在高校图书馆工作中的应用

高校图书馆在高校师生心目中应有极其重要的位置,在高校的教学、科研工作中应有极其重要的作用,但现实与期望总会有一定的差距。面对差距,高校图书馆内部应充分应用管理沟通的原理与方法,作好图书馆领导层与馆员之间、馆员与馆员之间以及馆员与读者之间的沟通和交流,处理好与各方的关系,弥补来自各方的认识偏差和自身工作的不足,提升高校图书馆的声望与地位。     

家族企业管理机制创新探析

改革开放以来 ,我国私营经济获得了长足的发展 ,并为我国经济和社会发展做出了重要贡献 ,成为社会主义市场经济的重要组成部分。但随着市场外在条件和社会经济发展格局的变化 ,作为私营资本形式之一的家族企业 ,其自身的不适应性逐步凸现出来。克服家族式管理的不足 ,转换管理机制和管理方式 ,通过资本市场使家族企业完成由家庭化向专业化、由宗法化向市场化的转变 ,是使其真正做大做强的必由之路     

网络交往中真实性的社会学分析

在网络交往中,其交往媒介的表意性、交往主体的平等性、交往互动的开放性、交往管理的规范性都是不同于现实的社会交往的,其交往过程中不仅有虚拟性的一面,而且也有其真实性的一面。网络交往中的真实性对我们具有升华社会交往、促进人的社会化、丰富社会日常生活等方面的意义。     

儒、释、道的人际交往观比较研究

人是自然属性和社会属性高度集中的统一体,社会生产关系是决定人际交往关系的决定因素。人们在社会生产生活中必然发生某种关系,可统称为人际关系或社会关系。儒家、佛教、道教均有其各自的人际交往理论和实践,认真总结儒、释、道三家人际交往的经验教训,是建设具有中国特色社会主义新文化的时代要求。     

现代家庭和谐心理教育探析

构建和谐社会需要相适应的现代家庭教育,特别是家庭和谐心理教育。个体自身的心理和谐、人与自然的心理和谐、人与社会的心理和谐、人与人的心理和谐都给家庭和谐心理教育提出了新要求。家庭和谐心理教育要探索新形势下开展和谐心理教育的方法途径,实现家庭与家庭、家庭与学校、家庭与社会教育机构的良性互动,为建设和谐社会发挥作用。