Dementia Problem Behavior and the Production of Informal Caregiving Services

Informal caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease spend a considerable amount of time providing care. In this paper, we use Grossman's health production and Becker's time allocation models to develop a model of informal care provision to elderly dementia patients. In our model, time inputs produce caregiving services, which provides utility to the caregiver, but reduces leisure. We assume that time is less productive of services on the margin as the disease progresses. In this framework, an increase in patients' disease severity does not necessarily increase informal caregiver time input. The cost of formal care establishes a reservation price for informal caregiving. When the costs of informal caregiving rise above this reservation level, the patient is institutionalized. We test empirically the effect of deterioration in the patients' condition, proxied by both disease severity and dementia problem behavior, on informal caregiving time. We find that dementia-related problem behaviors and functional limitations significantly increase inputs of informal caregiving time. Patients' problem behavior exerts a modifying effect on functional limitations, and patients' comorbidities have no effect on informal caregiving time.     

二外俄语教学的探索与创新

本文旨在通过课堂教学,探讨和帮助英语专业的学生掌握学习俄语的方法,以便使学 生具有使用语言和应用语言的能力。     

Deposit Insurance,Institutions, and Bank Interest Rates

Many recent institutional reforms of the financial system have relied on the introduction of an explicit scheme of deposit insurance. This instrument aims at two main targets, contributing to systemic stability and protecting depositors. However, it may also affect the interest rate spread in the banking system, which can be viewed as an indicator of either inefficiency or market power in this financial segment. This paper provides an empirical investigation of the effect of deposit insurance and other institutional and economic variables on bank interest rates across countries. We find that deposit insurance increases the lending–deposit spread in banking. The main effect seems to arise not from the deposit side though, but from an increase in the lending rate. We interpret this result as evidence of the presence of moral hazard problems related to this instrument. We also find that higher quality of institutions is associated with lower spreads, thus contributing to eroding sources of market power in the banking sector.     

中日银行不良债权成因比较分析

银行不良债权是中日两国面临的共同问题。本文在分析中日不良债权现状的基础上,从微观经济学和制度经济学视角对两国不良债权的成因进行了比较分析,并结合我国国情,得出解决这一问题的关键是消除形成金融不良资产的制度性根源,最后提出了化解我国不良债权的几点针对性措施。     

论个体人力资源开发的基本内容

本文认为,基于人力资本理论的个体人力资源开发就是对个人进行人力资本投资以提高工作所需人力资本水平改进工作绩效的有计划的系列的活动。文章认为个体人力资源开发的基本内容是知识开发、技能开发和能力开发。     

The current state of the labor queue: National and regional Evidence

We employ vector autoregressive techniques to determine the current state of the labor queue. Unemployment rate differentials have narrowed in recent years, potentially due to a change in the queue ordering, though a tight labor market and a stable queue would yield similar results. We find no evidence that the queue ordering has changed, which brings into question the resiliency of gains made by minority groups. We employ the same techniques to reveal the state of the queue across geographic regions and find that substantial differences exist across regions, implying variation in the relative labor force status of demographic groups.     

"僭礼逾制":明清江南市民生活的潜流

人们社会生活的变迁,是了解那一时代社会经济政治状况的钥匙。本文以江南市民生活为观照对象,从衣、食、住、游等方面,考察明清时期“僭礼逾制”的生活潜流及其透露出来的社会经济、文化变迁的信息。     

印度与非洲（1947—2004）

虽然非洲是一个被忽视了的大陆,但在地理上与历史上与印度关系密切.如今,非洲在印度的对外战略中占有重要地位.本文论述了印度对非洲的外交政策与实践.     

SBR工艺特点及SBR脱氮除磷技术

介绍了序批式活性污泥法(Sequencing Batch Reactor,简称SBR)工艺的产生、发展和特点以及目前脱氮除磷研究的主要进展。