Political election on legal retirement age

In the context of the current debate surrounding the reform of pension systems, this paper analyzes the political economy of the legal retirement age. Using a life-cycle model in which individuals differ by age and by wage, we analyze the outcome of a majority voting process on the legal retirement age in a Pay-As-You-Go pension system. The results show that the older an individual is, the closer her optimal retirement age is to the status quo age. That is, the status quo retirement age acts as a magnet. Additionally, we find that the preferred legal retirement age of most of the working population increases when the pension system is more redistributive. We also observe a positive relationship between the preferred legal retirement age and the status quo age.     

论我国引咎辞职制

引咎辞职制度是我国干部人事制度改革的重要内容,是加强社会主义道德建设,加强党的执政能力建设以及缓和政府与人民之间的矛盾的制度保障。引咎辞职,有利于落实立党为公、执政为民的宗旨;有利于推行依法行政,建立责任政府;有利于转变领导干部的工作作风。国家需要发展,社会需要和谐。人民期待引咎辞职制更加完善,促使官员们真正做到“情为民所系,权为民所用,利为民所谋”,恪尽职守、竭尽心力为人民服务。     

健全再分配机制是实现社会稳定的基石

我国改革开放以来随着经济的发展出现了两极分化趋势,对于代表工农大众利益的共产党来说触及了执政的合法性危机。当市场经济无法自动解决这一趋势时,政府的政策干预起着关键的作用。借鉴中外经验,建立再分配机制是实现社会稳定的保障,我国政府已经建立和正在完善社会保障制度。     

Introduction Private and Public: Gender,Generation and Family Life in Flux

In the past four decades, Hong Kong has seen a dramatic transformation of the social location of women in the public sphere, with deep and far-reaching ramifications for courtship, marriage, fertility, conceptions of parenthood, familial power, and equality and freedom. A sociology of the family is thus by necessity a sociology of women in particular, and of gender relations in general. Indeed, recent developments in research on marriage and the family in Hong Kong reflect this new awareness. Using rigorous sociological frameworks, this new line of research has begun to meet with some success in analyzing contemporary social issues that are prominent in the public consciousness. This essay reviews studies of four topical areas: determinants of the postponement of first marriage among women, the effect of live-in foreign domestic workers on family dynamics, violence against women and children in the family, and the livelihood strategies of cross-border families. These studies have attempted to integrate the interplay of the impact of a changing economy and society on the family and the role played by women in the family. The resulting dynamic interactions amongst the members within the family and the changes they bring about become propellants for change in the economy and society and pose new challenges. The family is indeed a troubled institution. It is so because myriad public issues are being taken on, confronted, worked through, and acted out within the family. The agony, and indeed the ecstasy, of the family is a reflection of the success, and failure, of society.     

A review on strong convergence of weighted sums of random elements based on Wasserstein metrics

In a previous paper the authors proposed a simple method to extend results about almost sure convergence for weighted sums of real random variables to the case of Banach-valued random elements. The method arises from the extension of Skorohod's Representation Theorem for weakly convergent sequences due to Blackwell and Dubins, applied to the general framework of weakly equivalent tight sequences of probability measures. This provides a scheme which permits us to handle separately a problem that behaves like the Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem and a question on uniform integrability which generally is reduced to the real valued version of the general problem to be solved.

In this paper we prove that Wasserstein's metrics can play the same role as Skorohod's Representation Theorem in the preceding scheme. We also show that our method can be applied to obtain results with respect to various summability methods (Abel, Euler, …) even in the case in which the ‘weights’ are linear operators.     

儒家思想与360度绩效评估

儒家文化基本精神主要体现在有为、和谐、民本主义以及伦理精神四个方面.儒家文化对360度绩效评估有五个方面的消极影响,即:"贵和尚中"思想导致上级对下级评估产生"集中效应";家族主义和等级观念促使下级对上级评估出现"宽大误差";集体主义情怀使员工自我评价时产生"自谦偏差";"情面"关系导致客户评估出现"宽大偏差";回报心态致使同事评估出现"过宽"或"过严"两个极端.国内企业在运用360度绩效评估方法时,需要充分考虑传统(儒家)文化的消极作用,创造有利于推行360度评估方法的企业文化环境,发挥360度评估方法应有的作用.     

论作为孔门教化经典的《诗》——以孔孟苟的诗论为中心

关于孔子删诗正乐与否的问题在历史上一直是一桩聚讼纷纭的公案,从广义上而言,它涉及到以孔子为代表的儒家与传统<诗>三百的关系问题,因此,要澄清这一历史公案,就不单单是一个历史考据的问题,还是一个哲学阐释的问题.本文从冯浩菲先生的探讨出发,转换研究的立场,力图由诗教阐释的角度,通过对孔门"思无邪"、"诗可以兴"、"诗言志"三个典型诗学命题的分析,厘清儒家与<诗>三百所发生的意义关联.