Marriage Migration Policy in South Korea: Social Investment beyond the Nation State

This article seeks to contribute to understandings of South Korea's approach to marriage migration. Situating our analysis of marriage migration policy specifically within the recent emergence of a social investment approach to welfare, we bring together two bodies of literature that due to the methodological nationalism of much welfare state scholarship are usually treated separately. Through an examination of the policy framework governing marriage migration ‐ so‐called ‘multicultural family policies’ ‐ we find that successive Korean governments have actively sought female marriage migrants to perform various social reproductive roles as a means to secure the reproductive capacity of the nation, just as feminist scholars have argued the care work of citizen‐mothers can be understood. Our analysis also suggests that marriage migration policy in Korea constitutes a distinctly transnational dimension to its overall social investment approach, which is strongly motivated by concerns to reproduce the next generation of human capital.     

Building relational capital: The contribution of episodic and relational community engagement

In this study, we provide evidence of the theorized connection between community engagement and the development of social capital, and the perceived value or worth of relationships among organizations and stakeholders. Using thematic analysis to understand the policy and practice frameworks of community engagement in Australian local government organizations, our analyses reveal two different types of community engagement—relational and episodic—each of which has the potential to contribute to relational dimension of social capital. The study introduces and develops new thinking around the ideas of episodic and relational engagement within the context of community engagement, and their respective contributions to the development of relational capital. Recognizing and identifying episodic and relational community engagement as separate phenomena allows researchers and practitioners to understand the theoretical dimensions of community engagement as a framework for practice.     

我国统一基本养老保险制度建立时点研究

众所周知,与城乡二元的社会经济结构相对应,几十年来,我国的城市和乡村实行的是两套相对独立、待遇迥异的"二元"养老保障体系[1].随着社会主义市场经济的发展、城市化率的提高、城乡融合的推进,二元的城乡养老保障体系与社会发展要求不相适应的矛盾日益显现,因此,如何统筹城乡养老保障,最终建立城乡统一的社会养老保障体系的问题,引起了政府、学者和社会各界的高度关注.     

中国大学生词汇学习中的词典使用情况调查及启示

以自行设计的词典使用过程模型为基础对北京一所高校的大学一年级学生在英语词汇学习中的词典使用情况进行了一次调查研究,并对部分受试者进行了跟踪访谈。研究表明,受试者在英语词典使用的三个阶段上有待改进,词典使用的指导训练应及早展开。根据调查中反映的问题,对大学英语教学中的词典使用指导与训练提出了建议。     

云南省地质灾害的发育特征及防治对策

受自然条件的影响和制约,云南成为我国受地质灾害危害较重的省份之一.地质灾害的频发,严重威胁着人民群众的生命财产安全,制约着我省经济、社会的发展.如何加强地质灾害防治工作,提高防治效果,不仅是保障人民群众生命财产安全的迫切要求,也是实现全面小康,构建"和谐云南"的重要举措.文章在对我省地质灾害发育的特征、当前地质灾害防治工作中存在的主要问题进行分析的基础上,提出了加强地质灾害防治的对策建议.     

Bayesian partial likelihood approach for tied observations

The Bayesian analysis based on the partial likelihood for Cox's proportional hazards model is frequently used because of its simplicity. The Bayesian partial likelihood approach is often justified by showing that it approximates the full Bayesian posterior of the regression coefficients with a diffuse prior on the baseline hazard function. This, however, may not be appropriate when ties exist among uncensored observations. In that case, the full Bayesian and Bayesian partial likelihood posteriors can be much different. In this paper, we propose a new Bayesian partial likelihood approach for many tied observations and justify its use.     

长株潭城市群政策体系的三维支撑模式

长株潭城市群政策体系得到了初步构建,城市群政策体系的实施平台也逐步搭建起来,但其仍存在诸多不足.长株潭城市群区域发展理念的更新及城市群区域发展的政策制度的不完善促使了城市群政策体系三维支撑模式的提出,模式的构建主要包括省级政府、三市政府和民间社会三个维度.     

临潭县伊赫瓦尼教派的传播与发展调查

产生于19世纪末20世纪初的伊赫瓦尼维新运动及在其基础上形成的伊赫瓦尼教派使20世纪的中国伊斯兰教掀开了新的一页.文章根据对中国伊斯兰教三大教派之一的伊赫瓦尼在偏居青藏高原东北一隅的临潭县的传播与发展所作的调查,向国内伊赫瓦尼教派的研究提供了一份较为详实的资料.     

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.

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.