NETWORKING CAPITALISM: Network Construction and Control Effects In Direct Selling

Drawing on a qualitative study of direct selling in Taiwan, this article examines the process of network construction and its control effects over distributors. I found that weak ties, rather than strong ties, constitute major networks for distributors to expand their business. In order to consolidate trust within weak ties, distributors develop two major strategies: personalizing sales and familiarizing sponsorship. They are engaged in a multilevel performance of emotional labor in facing the audience of customers and fellow distributors. Social networks not only function as a facilitator of economic exchange but also become a meáns of labor control that permeates both public and private lives of distributors.     

ROBUST METHODS FOR DEPENDENT CELL PEDIGREE DATA

This paper studies a robust approach to the analysis of cell pedigree data, building on the work of Huggins & Marschner (1991) which discussed M-estimation for the so-called bifurcating autoregressive process. The study allows for incomplete observation of the pedigree, and incorporates the possibility of additive effects outliers, as discussed in the time series literature. Some properties of the proposed estimation procedure are studied, including a Monte Carlo investigation of robustness in the presence of contamination.     

ETHNICITY, GENERATION, AND SCHOOL ATTAINMENT OF ASIANS, HISPANICS, AND NON-HISPANIC WHITES

Research on immigration and attainment in U.S. schools typically does not separate out generation of U.S. residence, a critical factor in attainment. This article explores immigrant generation effects (native, child of immigrant, immigrant) on schooling attained for Asians, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic whites, using Current Population Survey data. Previously unpublished cross-sectional data are presented. Regressions predicting school years completed show variable generation-by-ethnicity effects. Asian attainment increases sharply between immigrant and child-of-immigrant generations, leveling off thereafter. Hispanic attainment improves with successive generations of U.S. residence. Non-Hispanic white attainment peaks in the child-of-immigrant generation and declines for later generations.     

甘肃省藏族学龄女童失、辍学现象的原因分析及对策建议

甘肃藏族地区学龄女童辍学、流失现象比较严重,本文通过对甘南藏族自治州三县18个藏族聚居区村庄的实地走访调研,在充分掌握藏族地区女童教育实际的基础上,针对女童教育中存在的问题探求发生问题的原因,并提出了相应的对策建议。     

志愿活动参与对中老年人生活满意度的影响：抑郁的中介作用及年龄组差异

文章基于 2018 年中国健康与养老追踪调查（China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study,CHARLS）数据,使用线性回归模型、逐步回归法和系数乘积法分析志愿活动参与对中老年人生活满意度的影响和抑郁的中介作用,同时进一步探讨作用机制的年龄组差异。研究发现,志愿活动参与对中老年人生活满意度有显著的正向影响（β=0.041,P<0.05）,抑郁具有显著的中介作用,中介效应占总效应的 22.75%,且志愿活动参与对不同年龄组的影响系数及作用机制明显不同。研究结果对于预防和干预中老年抑郁,提高中老年人的心理健康和生活满意度,贯彻落实积极应对人口老龄化的国家战略均具有重要的参考意义。     

汉语言文学专业应用性改造探析

汉语言文学专业在当今社会新的人才需求架构下进行应用性改造是必然、明智的选择。马克思主义的实践观、新的知识观为专业应用性改造提供了本体论、认识论的基础,为高校知识教育向能力培养转变以增强学生就业能力的实践摸索提供了理论依据,指明了专业改革的方向,有效地指导了具体专业的实践教改活动。     

“可行能力”与西部民族地区和谐社会构建

“可行能力”是一个有重要理论意义的经济学范畴。一个人的可行能力指的是此人有可能实现的、各种可能的功能性活动的组合。可行能力是实现各种可能的功能性活动组合的实质自由（或者用日常语官说，就是实现各种不同生活方式的自由）。缺乏“可行能力”，难以构建西部民族地区和谐社会。西部民族地区的个人可行能力归纳为三个方面，即利益表达、经济参与和社会机会，以此来考察西部民族地区的个人可行能力的状况。     

论信息系统——ERP项目监理

信息系统工程监理在我国目前还是一个新生事物,无论是在理论研究上,还是在社会实践中,都还处于一个探索和起步阶段.要真正发挥ERP工程监理的作用,解决ERP成功率不高的问题,必须按照ERP工程的特点,建立相应的监理机制和实施模式.文章力图从ERP项目的特点和存在的问题出发,探讨ERP项目监理的有关问题.     

A Factor-Adjusted Multiple Testing Procedure With Application to Mutual Fund Selection

In this article, we propose a factor-adjusted multiple testing (FAT) procedure based on factor-adjusted p-values in a linear factor model involving some observable and unobservable factors, for the purpose of selecting skilled funds in empirical finance. The factor-adjusted p-values were obtained after extracting the latent common factors by the principal component method. Under some mild conditions, the false discovery proportion can be consistently estimated even if the idiosyncratic errors are allowed to be weakly correlated across units. Furthermore, by appropriately setting a sequence of threshold values approaching zero, the proposed FAT procedure enjoys model selection consistency. Extensive simulation studies and a real data analysis for selecting skilled funds in the U.S. financial market are presented to illustrate the practical utility of the proposed method. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.     

我国低碳旅游系统利益相关者关系格局及博弈分析

从我国低碳旅游系统利益相关者界定模糊、权责不清的现状入手,结合目前国内外旅游系统利益相关者研究成果,提出低碳旅游系统相关利益者的内涵;通过对目前低碳旅游系统利益相关者关系格局的分析,提出我国低碳旅游未来发展的系统利益相关者理想模式;在理想模式的基础上,运用共时参与模型和差序参与模型对低碳旅游系统具有代表性的四大相关利益者进行博弈分析,提出基于各利益相关者视角的低碳旅游行为模式,使低碳旅游走向协作发展的道路.