财政幻觉假说的实证检验

财政幻觉假说是公共选择理论下解释政府规模增长的理论之一。依据财政幻觉假说的经验方程，将“财政幻觉”分解为“赤字幻觉”与“预期幻觉”，以中国1978～2004年的年度数据，采用邹氏转折点检验、协整分析和误差修正模型，对“财政幻觉”与政府规模增长的关系进行实证检验。结果表明，“财政幻觉”是中国政府规模增长的原因之一，其中“赤字幻觉”的存在未得到显著证实，但“预期幻觉”对政府规模有正的显著影响。     

旅游市场开发中的旅游地评估研究

规范的旅游市场开发必须以明确的旅游地评估为前提。针对当前旅游开发热潮中的旅游地使用权益问题 ,本文就旅游地评估的实质、现实必要性、评估原则及评估方法等问题提出了看法 ,并以湖北省保康县野花谷为例进行评估     

实现政府职能归位 保障农民工权益

文章从政府职能的角度来分析农民工权益的保护问题,认为保护农民工权益是政府应有的责任,而且政府应处于积极主动的主导地位;同时指出在保护农民工问题上,政府存在严重的缺位现象;并分析了政府缺位的原因;最后在采取有效举措实现政府职能归位上,提出了自己的观点.     

高校人力资源成本及生均成本的计量研究

教育不仅是公益事业,而且具有产业性质.研究高校教育成本,确立合理的成本分摊机制,对优化配置高等教育资源,促进我国高等教育稳步健康发展具有十分重要的理论和现实意义.本文以传统的会计计量方法为基础,结合高校的所具有的一些特征,以某高校的实际资料为模型,对高校的人力资源成本和生均成本的计量方法进行了研究.     

Semi-polynomial copulas

In this paper, we characterise a family of bivariate copulas whose sections between the main diagonal and the border of the unit square are polynomial, generalising several families of copulas, including those with quadratic and cubic sections. We also study a measure of association and the tail dependence for this class, illustrating our results with several examples.     

以导师制为平台的高职教育人才培养模式的实践与探索

导师制是目前高职院校探索育人的新途径和新模式。文章主要对"四位一体"的高职院校导师制创新人才培养模式的实践进行了探索,总结了在导师制推行过程中取得的成效及存在的问题,并就高职院校导师制的完善提出改进对策。     

A life of fear: Sex workers and the threat of HIV in Uganda

Schoemaker J, Twikirize J. A life of fear: sex workers and the threat of HIV in Uganda The way individuals perceive their risk to certain threats influences their adoption of preventive behaviour. This study explored sex workers' perception of risk of HIV infection within the context of other serious threats. The study was carried out in Kampala, Uganda, using peer ethnography. Sex workers were well aware of their risk of HIV infection but this risk was eclipsed by other more immediate and frightening threats. Sex workers' willingness to gamble with HIV is explained by the fact that their existence is already very dangerous, and taking risks is an inherent part of their trade. Decriminalising sex work could make their lives somewhat safer, motivating them to better protect themselves, but this is unlikely to happen in Uganda. Attempting to enforce some coercive control mechanisms would not work, given the pervasive corruption in law enforcement and the judiciary, the institutions that would be responsible for implementing such control.     

Effects of the social dominance orientation on environmental attitudes of Chilean university students / Efectos de la orientación a la dominancia social sobre las actitudes ambientales de universitarios chilenos

By adopting a multidimensional approach to environmental attitudes (apathy, anthropocentrism, connectedness and emotional affinity with nature), this study explores the relationships between these dimensions, social dominance orientation (SDO) and political orientation. Two hundred and sixty-two Chilean university students filled out an ad hoc online questionnaire. Two confirmatory factorial analyses showed the four typologies of environmental attitudes and the two factors for SDO, which are labelled group dominance and opposition to equality. Through hierarchical regressions, group dominance showed higher explanatory power of environmental attitudes than political orientation. Furthermore, using the bootstrap procedure we showed that group dominance mediated between political orientation and attitudes of apathy, anthropocentrism and connectedness, while opposition to equality mediated between apathy and emotional affinity. We conclude that SDO is an important variable for measuring political ideology while also providing new nuances when analysing the relationships with environmental attitudes.