Sex segregation in India's formal manufacturing sector

Using an index of dissimilarity based on data from the Annual Survey of Industries for 1989/90 and 2000/01, the authors find that sex segregation across India's so‐called factory sector decreased over this period. Most of the apparent improvement, however, was due to changes in the industrial structure of employment, not desegregation per se. The index is also sensitive to the number of industries in the underlying classifications. At the national and state levels, formal job opportunities for women are effectively very limited: they are highly concentrated in a small number of traditional “women's” manufacturing industries, such as food, tobacco, apparel, weaving and spinning.     

20世纪30年代北平大学中的左翼思潮

20世纪30年代左翼思潮在大学生中相当流行,不过由于学校立场、师生关系等各种因素,其在不同学校表现的强度和形式亦有所不同。本文以大学较为集中的北平为对象,考察左翼思潮在各校中的分布情况,认为在左翼思潮兴盛的学校,学生占据着主导地位,这一点亦有助于我们理解左翼学生从事文化运动时所采取的策略。     

西方思潮冲击下的中国文化主体性建设

西方思潮的冲击是当代中国文化主体性建设面临的巨大挑战。中体西用、中国本位文化建设与"全盘西化"是近现代历史上最具代表性的回应模式,其共同症结是对中国传统文化缺乏自信。今天中国的文化主体性建设,要站在新的历史高度,在广泛吸收西方、中国文化精髓的基础上,从时代出发,综合创新,建立一种既具有中国鲜明特色又对世界具有引领功能的文化体系和价值观念。     

Assessment of a hybrid reform path: Social and labour policies in Uruguay, 1985–2005

Since Uruguay's return to democracy in 1985, a shift in economic and social policy has radically changed the country. The outcomes have been shaped by adjustment to international circumstances “by default”, stop‐go market reforms and the inconsistent pace and content of reforms. Unlike other countries in the region, Uruguay has not followed a resolutely neo‐liberal course, but rather a hybrid one. The end result has been a liberal labour regime coupled with a three‐dimensional social policy balancing the market, the old corporatist welfare State and the new welfare state targeting specific beneficiaries.     

江西省企业技术创新中新产品的发展态势

新产品在技术创新中的地位越来越重要,江西省新产品产值、新产品出口创汇今后三年中仍以大于10%的速度增长。尽管全省企业知识产权保护的意识明显加强,但国外专利数偏少（占0.63%）,具有自主知识产权的高精尖端技术不强。必须完善全省科技人才吸引和激励机制,加大力度引进高层次创新人才,加大力度落实科技创新优惠扶持政策,加大力度给予经费扶持。同时必须健全产学研紧密结合的机制,提升企业自主创新能力,增强企业技术集成与产业化能力。     

Estimation of firm-specific technological bias,technical change and total factor productivity growth: a dual approach

This paper deals with modeling firm-specific technical change (TC), and technological biases (inputs and scale) in estimating total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Several dual parametric econometric models are used for this purpose. We examine robustness of TFP growth and TC among competing models. These models include the traditional time trend (TT) model and the general index (GI) model. The TT and the GI models are generalized to accommodate firm-specific TC and technological bias (in inputs and output). Both nested and non-nested tests are used to select the appropriate models. Firm-level panel data from the Japanese chemical industry during 1968- 1987 is used as an application.     

Racial/Ethnic Minority Vocational Research Trends: An 11‐Year Update

This study extends Flores et al.'s ( 2006 ) 36‐year analysis of racial/ethnic minority (REM) career research to identify recent trends in choice of topics and leading individual and institutional contributors. The authors identified 166 articles on REM career research published from 2005 to 2015 in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, The Career Development Quarterly, the Journal of Career Assessment, and the Journal of Career Development. Of these studies, 92% were empirical, with more than three quarters of these using quantitative rather than qualitative methodology. Most frequently, the empirical studies (n = 153) were based on samples of high school (30.7%) or undergraduate (34.6%) students. The authors discuss the implications of their findings and suggest ways to expand REM career research in the future.     

A variable-neighbourhood search algorithm for finding optimal run orders in the presence of serial correlation

The responses obtained from response surface designs that are run sequentially often exhibit serial correlation or time trends. The order in which the runs of the design are performed then has an impact on the precision of the parameter estimators. This article proposes the use of a variable-neighbourhood search algorithm to compute run orders that guarantee a precise estimation of the effects of the experimental factors. The importance of using good run orders is demonstrated by seeking D-optimal run orders for a central composite design in the presence of an AR(1) autocorrelation pattern.     

明中叶文艺思潮对戏曲发展的影响

明中叶至清初时期出现的个性解放和浪漫主义文艺思潮对戏曲的发展产生了深远的影响。在戏曲艺术领域 ,越来越多的剧作家倡导戏曲创作要真实、通俗和自然 ,要摈弃虚伪、迂雅和做作 ;倡导个性解放的浪漫主义开始盛行一时 ,戏曲中语言的通俗化使其更能表现世俗生活中的人情百态 ,且易于为市民阶层所理解和欣赏     

Optimal designs for exponential regression

This paper is concerned with the optimal design problem for the particular case of non-linear parametrisation:the parameters to be estimated are included in exponents.Some properties of locally optimal designs as functions of estimated parameters are investigated and a table of such designs in given.We consider also designs to be optimal in the sense of minimax approach.