Education and wage inequality in the informal sector: The case of Cameroon

This article analyses the effects of education on wage inequality in the informal sector in Cameroon. The author uses quantile regression on data from the Second survey on employment and the informal sector in Cameroon (EESI 2) of 2010. The results indicate that both wages and wage inequality increase with education in the informal sector, with tertiary education creating greatest inequality. These findings point to a number of policy recommendations for a transition to formality, such as the creation of more jobs for a skilled workforce, the development of sites adapted to informal sector activities and the creation of more vocational schools.     

Resistance as Sacrifice: Toward an Ascetic Antiracism

Often described as an outcome, inequality is better understood as a social process—a function of how institutions are structured and reproduced, and the ways people act and interact within them across time. Racialized inequality persists because it is enacted moment to moment, context to context—and it can be ended should those who currently perpetuate it commit themselves to playing a different role instead. This essay makes three core contributions. First, it highlights a disturbing parity between the people who are most rhetorically committed to ending racialized inequality and those who are most responsible for its persistence. Next, it explores the origin of this paradox—how it is that ostensibly antiracist intentions are transmuted into “benevolently racist” actions. Finally, it presents an alternative approach to mitigating racialized inequality, one that more effectively challenges the self‐oriented and extractive logics undergirding systemic racism, rather than expropriating blame to others, or else adopting introspective and psychologized approaches to fundamentally social problems, those sincerely committed to antiracism can take concrete steps in the real world—actions that require no legislation or coercion of naysayers, just a willingness to personally make sacrifices for the sake of racial justice.     

The ‘new industrial man’ as unhero: Doing postfeminist masculinities in an Italian pharmacological research centre

Recent work has documented the need to engage with how men construct masculinities within postfeminist discourses in the workplace. Postfeminism has sparked debates concerning the changing ideals of masculinities, highlighting the tensions between traditional forms of patriarchy and ‘new’ ways of being a man (e.g., emotional, a ‘new father’, in crisis). Men have been depicted as being in search of a new identity, opposed to the ever‐growing confidence and empowerment of women. In mobilizing postfeminism as a discourse, this article illustrates how men working in an Italian pharmacological research centre (managed by men but dominated by women) assume subject positions that contradictorily fluctuate between tradition and fluid modernity, to reveal a masculinity which we identify with the ‘new industrial man’. The postfeminist masculinities exposed in the analysis mesh pro‐ and anti‐feminist ideas by appealing to un/heroic and romanticized subjectivities. The analysis also shows how un/heroic masculinities and men's appeal to biological differences to reinforce social ones and devalue the feminine obfuscate organizational gender inequalities. The article advances masculinity theory by offering a nuanced analysis of how masculinities and men are affected by paradoxical contemporary pressures for more egalitarian gender relations and a renewed emphasis on patriarchal traditions, which continue to support the gendering of the workplace.     

人口较少民族经济向现代经济转变的路径分析

在阐述路径依赖理论的基础上,结合人口较少民族经济的特点对人口较少民族经济向现代经济转变的路径进行了分析,提出要辩证地看待人口较少民族传统经济在这一转变中的影响和作用,认为人口较少民族实现经济转变的首要问题是打破经济封闭和信息封闭,在此基础上,将自身的特色优势与区域优势有效结合起来,将传统经济中的积极因素与现代经济因素有效结合起来,走因地制宜、循序渐进的转变路径。     

中俄战略协作伙伴关系的新发展及其战略意义

近两年来,中俄战略协作伙伴关系有重大发展,两国领导人频繁互访,定期会晤;边界问题得到圆满解决,边境地区军事信任不断加强;经贸关系得到特别重视并有新的发展;双方在国际领域的磋商与合作明显加强.中俄战略协作伙伴关系的发展具有多方面的战略意义,它有利于改善和增强中俄两国的国际战略地位;促进世界力量平衡,制约一超独霸,推动世界向多极化发展;为冷战后国际关系尤其是大国关系提供了范例,推动了大国关系的良性互动;为国际社会创立了新型的边境及地区安全模式.     

建构与拆解:新中国“四十年”文学的历史叙述

新中国以来的四十年文学,自始至终都对历史叙述保持着浓厚的兴趣。此间各个时期的文学对历史的叙述都不是在纯粹审美修辞的维面上展开的,它们分别肩负了不同的意识形态启蒙使命。"十七年文学"为巩固现实政权的合理/合法性提供了形象上的依据。新时期文学接续"十七年文学"的传统,以笔为枪,控诉和反思刚过去不久的民族劫乱,探索国家发展的前途。质疑过去文学赋予历史话语的崇高意义,新历史小说以解构的立场与姿态,通过具体的艺术实践,颠覆了历史话语的神话。新历史小说以消解"十七年文学"权威历史叙述为初衷,然而后来的种种迹象表明,它正沦为一种新的历史叙述霸权。     

项目制:一种新的国家治理体制(英文)

作为新双轨制的增量部分,项目制旨在通过国家财政的专项转移支付等项目手段,突破以单位制为代表的原有科层体制的束缚,遏制市场体制所造成的分化效应,加大民生工程和公共服务的有效投入。以项目制为核心确立的新的国家治理体制,形成了中央与地方政府之间的分级治理机制,并对基层社会产生了诸多意外后果。项目制所引起的基层集体债务、部门利益化以及体制的系统风险,对于可持续的社会发展将产生重要影响。     

北京市现代制造业的产业组织结构分析

北京现代制造业的发展已有4年时间,对其发展状况和存在问题有必要从不同角度做出一个基本判断。本文主要从产业组织学的角度分析北京现代制造业产业组织结构的现状,探讨其存在的问题,并提出优化北京现代制造业产业组织的对策与建议。     

论农村人力资本投资与农村经济发展

随着知识经济的出现,农村经济的快速发展,资金、物质等传统影响经济增长的要素作用开始下降,人力资本上升为经济发展的主导动因,农村迫切需要高素质的劳动力.但当前农村劳动者文化素质普遍较低、生产力低下,人力资本的匮乏,开发人力资本的机制不合理等因素,严重影响了农村经济持续稳定的快速发展.因此加大农村人力资本的投资,建立合理的投资机制将对促进农村经济以及整个国民经济的发展起着重要的作用.     

新生代农民工的城市适应研究

在城市适应的过程中,新生代农民工既要接受现代文明的观念,又要了解城市的各种规则,他们对前者的接受要高于对后者的了解。在心理和精神层面上,新生代农民工很接近城市文明,但是因为制度设置的欠缺,他们被排除在城市社会生活之外;同时,城市也缺乏对农民工有针对性的宣传、教育,这使农民工们对与自己利益有关的法律、法规的了解和认识不够,无法较好地保护自己的权益。