Occupational mobility and cognitive ability: A commentary on Betthäuser,Bourne and Bukodi

This commentary critiques Betthäuser, Bourne and Bukodi's (2020) paper which finds that cognitive ability does not substantially mediate class of origin effects on educational and occupational outcomes. From these results, they conclude that cognitive ability is only of minor importance for social stratification, reasserting their view of the primacy of class origins for social stratification. The central issue surrounding cognitive ability in social stratification is its effects on socioeconomic attainments vis-à-vis socioeconomic origins, not the extent that cognitive ability mediates classorigin effects. Their analytical strategy of estimating the extent that cognitive ability mediates class origineffects is misleading because: it ignores the only moderate associations of socioeconomic origins with educational and occupational outcomes; the stronger direct effects of cognitive ability; the associations of parents’ ability with their own socioeconomic attainments; and the genetic transmission of cognitive ability and other traits relevant to social stratification from parents to their children.     

双音节性质形容词ABAB式的重叠--兼与AABB式比较

形容词的重叠形式多样,表义丰富,极大地增强了语言的表现力,是汉语一种独特的构词方式,然而,目前理论界较少涉及性质形容词ABAB式重叠。通过比较,重点探讨分析性质形容词ABAB式重叠的语义条件、语法意义及句法表达功能。了解不同重叠形式的特点,有助于提高运用语言的能力,尤其对于学习汉语的外国人来说,则可避免出现不必要的失误。     

幼儿园新教师观察能力现状调查与分析——基于福建省幼儿园调查

幼儿园教师专业性的重要体现是通过观察和解读儿童,为儿童提供适宜的支持,促进幼儿的学习与发展。通过问卷调研福建省1062名幼儿园新教师观察能力现状,从确定观察目标、选择和运用观察方法、筛选观察信息和观察记录以及观察分析和支持四个维度进行分析。研究发现：幼儿园新教师具备较强的观察意识,但是观察能力普遍处于低水平观察。新教师的观察能力在学历、幼儿园等级、幼儿园性质、幼儿园所处地域上呈现显著性差异。研究建议：完善职前课程培养体系,通过情境式的研训方式提升新教师的观察能力。     

幼儿冒险游戏水平与抗挫折能力的关系：自我效能感的中介作用

为考察幼儿冒险游戏水平与抗挫折能力的关系,及考察自我效能感在两者关系中的中介作用,本研究随机选取浙江省杭州市148名幼儿为被试,通过任务测评法评定幼儿的冒险游戏水平和自我效能感,通过教师问卷评定报告幼儿的抗挫折能力。结果表明：幼儿冒险游戏水平、自我效能感、抗挫折能力发展良好;冒险游戏水平直接正向预测抗挫折能力,并通过自我效能感间接预测抗挫折能力。     

舞剧《妈勒访天边》带给文化创意产业的思考

文化创意产业是世界创意经济的一部分。作为文化创意产业,它在很大程度上影响、改变着我们日常工作、交往、休憩、娱乐以至内在心理世界的活动方式。文化创意产业的发展,是整个文化创意机制、文化传播构成与文化参与的行为活动方式的全面创新。     

Getting low educated and older people into work: The role of fiscal policy

Raising employment, in particular employment among older individuals and low educated individuals, stands high on the agenda of policy makers in many OECD countries. Increased sensitivity in recent years to rising inequality has made the challenge only larger. In this paper we evaluate alternative fiscal policy scenarios to face this challenge. We construct and use an overlapping generations model for an open economy where individuals differ not only by age, but also by innate ability and human capital. The model allows us to study effects on aggregate employment, per capita income and welfare, as well as effects for specific age and ability groups. We show that well-considered fiscal policy changes can significantly improve macroeconomic productive efficiency, without increasing intergenerational or intragenerational welfare inequality. Our results strongly prefer a reduction in the labor tax rate on older workers and on all low-wage earners, financed by an overall reduction in non-employment benefits. An alternative financing option is to raise the consumption tax rate. These results are to be seen as long-run effects for economies at potential output.     

Education,cognitive ability,and cause-specific mortality: A structural approach

Education is negatively associated with most major causes of death. Prior work ignores the premise that cause-specific hazards are interdependent and that both education and mortality depend on cognitive ability. We analyse Swedish men aged 18–63, focusing on months lost due to specific causes—which solves the interdependence problem—and use a structural model that accounts for confounding due to cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model controlling for Intelligence Quotient, improving education is associated with large decreases in mortality for major causes of death. In the structural model, improving education is associated with a small decrease in months lost for most causes and education levels. Among the least educated, however, improving education strongly reduces the months lost, mainly those lost from external causes, such as accidents and suicide. Results suggest that conventional analysis of education and mortality may be biased, even if accounting for observed cognition.     

高职高专英语教学改革初探

高职高专英语教学现状不容乐观,改革势在必行.文章指出应尽快转变教学观念,深入研究职业教育的特点,改革课堂教学模式和教材,提高教师素质,注重师资培养,创立多样化英语学习环境,以期提高高职高专教学的质量,办出高职高专院校的特色,培养有较高英语水平的高等技术应用型人才.这是高职高专英语教育改革与发展的当务之急.     

浅析房地产市场复苏的制约因素及其对策

房地产市场包括一级市场和二级市场，二级市场又包括消费市场和投资市场。现在的政策导向只注重房地产消费市场部分，而忽视了其投资市场部分，这是潜力巨大的市场。房地产只有真正成为大众投资品种时，才可能促进房地产一、二级市场的共同繁荣     

英语新闻标题信息有效性解析

标题被视为新闻报道的窗口,标题信息的有效性直接影响读者获取信息的数量和质量。对标题信息有效性的研究有助于新闻标题的设计,也能够为读者浏览新闻提供一些指导意见。笔者从用词数量,语法特点和词汇选用3个方面对英语新闻标题信息的有效性进行了对比分析。数据统计分析结果表明具有较高信息有效性的标题通常由7±2个词组成,采用主动语态的简单句,精选简短的小词和生动活泼的习语,运用恰到好处的修辞手法。