中国公民健康水平的性别差异——基于第三期中国妇女社会地位调查数据的分析

基于第三期中国妇女社会地位调查数据。从健康自评、心理健康、生理健康三个方面分析了中国公民健康水平的性别差异,同时展现不同阶层和群体妇女的健康状况。结果表明,总体上男性比女性更容易获得较高的健康水平：而弱势社会阶层女性与优势社会阶层女性健康水平也存在较大差异。研究还发现。在职业、收入、教育程度以及城乡区隔等因素对男女公民健康产生影响的同时,性别因素交织其中而使健康水平性别差距方面发生一些微妙变化。     

历史演进与发展条件——中国志愿行为文化的实践

研究志愿服务与之相适应的行为文化,对建国以来志愿行为文化萌芽期的模式及其存在的问题进行辩证性的分析,对志愿行为文化高速发展期的起步探索、组织推动、规范发展、社会体系四个阶段的历史演进模式予以梳理,分析其阶段性的发展特点,从传统伦理文化传承、非营利性组织发展、公民社会构建与社会治理、社会转型与体制转轨等角度审视志愿行为文化的发展条件。     

论全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标

十六大报告提出的全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标,绘制了21世纪头20年我国现代化建设的宏伟蓝图,为全党和全国人民指明了在新世纪和发展阶段继续前进的方向。本文立足基本国情,从掌握全面建设小康社会的科学内涵及需要正确处理的几个主要重大关系入手,阐述了全面建设小康社会的重要性,长期性,艰巨性,复杂性和必然性。     

劳动力禀赋变化与生产条件差异下的农业技术选择——以中国水稻机插秧技术推广应用为例

农业生产要素禀赋状况变化与农业生产条件差异对农业技术进步有着重要的影响。通过23个水稻生产省（直辖市、自治区）2004—2015年的面板数据实证分析发现：随着水稻雇工工价不断上升和各地区水稻机插秧水平不断提高,各地区的农业生产条件也对水稻机插秧水平具有显著的影响,农业生产条件的差异是导致地区间水稻机插秧水平差异的重要原因。随着中国农业劳动力逐渐稀缺会诱致劳动节约型技术的不断出现和大量应用,但诱致性技术变迁机制的有效发挥还依赖于各地区农业生产条件。为进一步提高中国农业机械化水平,需要加大农业基础设施建设、改善农机作业条件和提高农机技术水平。     

Gammaization and wishartness of dependent quadratic forms

In this paper two equivalent sets of necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for dependent quadratic forms to be distributed as multivariate gamma distribution. The procedure also gives a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for principal minors of generalized quadratic forms to be jointly distributed as the joint distribution of principal minors of a Kishart matrix.     

Adaptive Test for Periodicity in Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive Models

This article is devoted to the study of the periodicity testing problem in a self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) model. The local asymptotic normality (LAN) property is shown via the adapted sufficient conditions due to Swensen (1985 Swensen , A. R. ( 1985 ). The asymptotic distribution of the likelihood ratio for autoregressive time series with a regression trend . Journal of Multivariate Analysis 16 : 54 – 70 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Moreover, the LAN of the central sequence is established. First, we consider the case where the innovation density is specified and we obtain a parametric local asymptotic test. Second, we construct an adaptive test in the case where this density is unspecified but symmetric. The performances of these established tests are shown via simulation studies.     

Reflections on grounding firm innovation and viability

Entrepreneurial activity unfolds in a dynamic environment that challenges business viability. We utilize grounded theory as a novel type of reflection to explain and interpret whether and how innovation can afford survival benefits to firms. The premise is the application of a methodological approach with reflexive properties to advance scientific rigor in “reflections.” The idea underlying our reflection was to use innovation as the point of departure, review the literature, conceptualize ideas, and finally link the concepts that emerged as components of a framework. Our view of the firm resembles a viable entity that changes, constantly striving to meet and balance internal potentials and external complexities, while innovation per se involves change that is made possible by entrepreneurship. We bring together our personal and professional backgrounds and implement the European scholarly tradition on innovation and Viable Systems approach to scrutinize innovation’s interactions and relations. We linked boundary conditions, opportunities, and complementary assets to innovation. Effectively, our analysis conceptualizes innovation as autopoiesis in entrepreneurship and demonstrates its central role as the vehicle to exploit changes that ensure firm viability.     

Labour and international accounting standards: A question of social justice

As the international guardian of social justice, the ILO is witnessing a global revolution in accounting, which has culminated in international accounting standards (IAS-IFRS). Previously, accounting measured the economy in relation to the capacities and responsibilities of workers and their employers. Today, the exact opposite is the case: the IAS-IFRS no longer measure work and enterprises, referring instead to the abstract concept of a cybernetic entity capable of constant restructuring, at the cost of unprecedented inequality. The author points to the incoherence of this system and to the need to restore the full carrying value of labour.     

Call centres and job satisfaction in Italy: employment conditions and socio-biographical patterns

ABSTRACT

The article examines job satisfaction in 21 Italian call centres. The results of research carried out on 1715 handlers indicate how dissatisfaction prevails among call centre representatives (CCRs) and how it is influenced by aspects related to some organisational characteristics (service delivered, size and organisational typology), on one side, and to different aspects of working conditions (contract, wage and tenure) and participants’ biographical and working profiles of CCRs (gender, age, educational attainment), on the others. However, the most interesting finding emerges by distinguishing different dimensions of job satisfaction (extrinsic and intrinsic-relational). In particular, the relationship between type of contract and job satisfaction is rather interesting. For non-permanent workers, in fact, the probability of being dissatisfied is decidedly greater if we consider the extrinsic dimension of job satisfaction. Instead, when the intrinsic-relational dimension is taking into account, atypical workers are no more dissatisfied than the permanent ones. Job insecurity and limited perspectives in terms of work alternatives, safeguards and rewards, seem to be the source of greatest dissatisfaction for Italian CCRs. This certainly does not surprise considering the Italian development model and its dualistic labour market, highly segmented between insiders and outsiders.     

Travail et normes comptables internationales: une question de justice sociale

En tant que garante internationale de la justice sociale, l'OIT se trouve confrontée à une révolution comptable mondiale, parachevée par les normes comptables internationales (IAS-IFRS). La comptabilité mesurait autrefois l'économie en rapport avec les capacités et les responsabilités des travailleurs et de ceux qui en disposent. C'est aujourd'hui l'exact opposé: les normes IAS-IFRS ont perdu le sens de la mesure du travail et de l'entreprise en se référant au concept abstrait d'une entité cybernétique capable d'incessantes réorganisations, au prix d'inégalités sans limites. L'auteur en dénonce les incohérences et démontre la nécessité de redonner au travail toute sa valeur comptable.