Life with and without heart disease among women and men over 50

This article uses a demographic approach and data from the Health and Retirement Survey, a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population, to investigate sex differences in the length of life lived with heart disease and after a heart attack for persons in the United States age 50 and older. On average, women live longer than men with heart disease. At age 50 women can expect to live 7.9 years and men 6.7 years with heart disease. The average woman experiences heart disease onset three years older and heart attacks 4.4 years older than men.     

A longitudinal analysis of the impact of health shocks on the wealth of elders

We investigate the impact of health shocks on wealth, using all four waves of the Health and Retirement Study, and estimate not only the short-term effect but also the long-term effect of health shocks on wealth of the elderly. We find that new health events lower wealth in elders during the period in which such health shocks occur, but the impact tends to disappear over time. We also find that health shocks result in greater wealth depletion when they occur later in life. Together with existing health problems, the overall impact of health problems on wealth increases over time.

全球化背景下的金融创新研究

金融创新是经济发展和金融全球化的必然选择,也是促进一国经济发展的主要因素之一.目前,我国金融机构创新能力不足,究其原因主要有:金融创新主体不明、目的不清、缺少金融创新的有效环境和金融监管与金融创新趋势不相适应.本文认为这些问题主要说明了我国缺乏激励金融机构创新的机制.因此,应该分别在产权、市场、监管等方面采取相应的激励措施,完善激励机制,促使金融机构积极并有效创新.     

中国现代化的社会结构转型与马克思主义实践

各文明体系中社会要素的生长积累具有同步性,但社会要素作用的发挥离不开一定的社会结构.社会结构是联系社会要素和社会形态的中介环节,只有在一定的社会结构中,各种社会要素才能被汇集为一种"力",从而推动社会形态的演进.中国明代在社会要素的积累方面与西方相近,却没有像西方那样转入近现代社会,这一现象只能从社会形式即关系结构中得到解释.马克思主义在中国的实践推动了中国社会结构转型而真正迈入现代化进程.     

Declining inter-industry wage dispersion in the US

Industrial effects have long been significant factors in wage inequality. Previous research indicates that wage differentials across industries were increasing through the mid 1980s. Using more recent data, however, we find that the level of inter-industry wage dispersion declined by 36% from 1986 to 2002 despite the continued trend towards increasing inequality in the labor force. This decline in inter-industry wage dispersion is evident across gender and educational groups. Using multilevel growth curve models, our multivariate results indicate that the decline is only weakly related to industrial changes in education, occupation or even productivity despite the fact that the latter variable had been a critical factor in the prior period. Indicators of globalization and downsizing also do not appear to explain this decline. For the more recent period, the most important factors associated with the narrowing of inter-industry wage dispersion are reduced unionization rates and the higher proportion of casual workers. We interpret these results as suggesting that firms may now be less economically obliged to pass on a portion of their rents to broad groups of workers and may instead be engaged in more idiosyncratic processes of negotiation with individual workers based on micro-level sources of bargaining power.     

上海郊区发展历史、现状及展望

我国城市郊区建制效仿苏联,初期目的是保障大城市居民的鲜活农产品供应.20世纪90年代以后,上海在城乡规划和政策导向两方面积极促进郊区工业化与城镇化的结合,促进大规模商业服务项目落户郊区,一批兼具就业、商务、交通、居住和休闲娱乐等功能的新城和新市镇随之发展起来.随着上海国际经济、金融、贸易和航运中心的逐步建成,郊区作为上海先进制造业基地、城市发展的未来空间、现代服务业延伸地区、鲜活农副产品生产基地,以及市民休闲度假基地的重要地位将进一步显现出来,郊区将继续成为上海发展最有活力的地区.     

科学与人文融合视角下素质教育的境界研究

科学教育和人文教育的融合是素质教育的核心内容,也是高等教育改革和发展的趋势.其融合的境界可分为由低到高的三个层次:科学知识与人文知识的融合,科学精神与人文精神的融合,科学行为与人文行为的融合.融合的进程遵循辩证唯物主义认识论的规律,具有递进性和回复性的特点.     

我国的刑事诉讼结构——一个亟待澄清的概念

我国在共时性语境下展开的刑事诉讼结构研究容易遮蔽一个历时性形成的问题:现代刑事诉讼结构与其理论基础浑然一体,其制度表达服务于西方由来已久的程序正义观;我国当下的刑事诉讼结构与我国的理论传统在整体上也是协调一致的,其制度表达基本上服务于我国当下日遭否定的实体本位说。家庭本位观决定了我国古代刑事诉讼中追诉者对被追诉者进行追诉、审问的两面结构。集体优位观决定了我国1979年刑事诉讼法确立的国家专门机关对被追诉者进行犯罪追诉的简单结构和当下刑事诉讼的畸形结构。我国当下的刑事诉讼结构亟待实现现代化,需要充分确立被追诉者的基本权利,取消检察机关对刑事审判的监督权,在审判前程序中确立中立性裁判者的法律地位,实现追诉权与裁判权的分离。我国刑事诉讼结构的现代化需要以"以人为本"的发展观为理论支撑。     

韩国青年失业的原因:期望薪资的影响及其启示

本文使用1998²008年的韩国劳动面板调查数据,将期望薪资作为保留薪资的代理变量纳入Logit模型,分析韩国青年求职者期望薪资与潜在薪资之间的差异(即高眼光因素)对青年就业的影响。分析结果表明,青年男性求职者期望薪资越高于潜在市场薪资,就业概率越低。但这一结果不适用于中年求职者与女性求职者的就业问题。此外,年龄、学历、求职途径、求职地区、婚姻状态等也对青年就业产生影响。     

The Emergence of Two Distinct Fertility Regimes in Economically Advanced Countries

Beginning in 2000, in economically advanced countries, a remarkable bifurcation in fertility levels has emerged, with one group in the moderate range of period total fertility rates, about 1.9, and the other at 1.3. The upper branch consists of countries in Northern and Western Europe, Oceania and the United States; the lower branch includes Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe, and East and Southeast Asia. A review of the major theories for low-fertility countries reveals that none of them would have predicted this specific bifurcation. We argue that those countries with fertility levels close to replacement level have institutional arrangements, and related policies, that make it easier, not easy, for women to combine the worker and mother roles. The institutional details are quite different across countries, suggesting that multiple combinations of institutional arrangements and policies can lead to the same country-level fertility outcome. Canada, the only exception to this bifurcation, illustrates the importance of the different institutional structures in Québec compared to the rest of Canada.