论西汉对匈奴与西域诸国的经济文化渗透

西汉王朝为打击匈奴而通使西域。为了使西域诸国与匈奴断绝关系,和西汉王朝一起攻打匈奴,达到断匈奴"右臂"的目地,西汉对西域诸国进行了经济文化渗透。匈奴在汉武帝的打击下,对汉朝称臣;汉王朝为巩固汉匈的君臣关系,对匈奴进行了经济文化渗透。     

北魏统一中原前十六国政权的汉化先声

北魏统一中原前十六国政权的汉化先声,是魏晋南北朝民族大融合的重要组成部分。在十六国前后135年间,匈奴、羯、氐、羌、鲜卑先后建立的诸胡族政权,通过民族族源上的寻根认同、政治制度上的华夷互化、统治思想上的德天相辅、经济领域中的以农为本、文化领域中的尊儒重教,推动本民族的汉化与封建化进程,并初步完成这一历史使命。十六国政权的汉化成就不仅为北魏统一中原奠定了基础,也为后来隋文帝统一天下,开创隋唐两代民族和睦国家强盛的新局面做出了贡献。十六国统治者大都是一些汉化颇深的胡族首领,他们步中原秦、汉、魏、晋历代汉族统治者之后尘,推行汉化和封建化新政。正是因为十六国胡族政权的汉化特征较为平淡,故这一段民族融合的重要史实很少引起后世史学家们的重视和注意。     

发达国家的外资银行监管对我国的启示

文章在分析我国外资银行监管现状及存在问题的基础上,研究西方发达国家对外资银行监管经验,在我国金融市场全面对外开放的情形下,对我国完善外资银行监管进行深入的思考,提出在对外资银行的监管中,应建立与其母国的信息交流机制,并在今后的立法中加以完善。     

Estimating Housing Infill Potential: Developing a Case for Floorspace Pooling in Ahmedabad,India

This paper demonstrates a rapid and inexpensive methodology (using minimal data) for estimating housing infill potential and develops the idea of residential floorspace pooling to deliver the infill. Estimates are based on surveying 11 km2 of the residential land in Ahmedabad. The analysis suggests that Ahmedabad has a huge potential for infill development, which could accommodate significantly more than its new housing requirements for 2031, within the existing footprint of the city. The second part of the paper discusses development of the idea of floorspace pooling as a tool to enable supply of the new housing infill floorspace in the market.     

US and them: Job quality differences between natives and immigrants in Europe

Using microdata from the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and aggregate indicators of labour market institutions, this article compares the job quality of native and non-native workers across European countries and analyses the impact of the institutional settings on the job quality differential between both groups. The LFS is used to measure a job quality index for the period 2005–2017. We find that some immigrant groups fare worse than natives, the contribution of the “composition effect” to explain this differential is large, and the institutional framework affects the immigration gap in job quality. In particular, some labour market institutions (more centralized wage bargaining, stricter employment protection legislation) tend to be detrimental for immigrants relative to natives, while integration policies seem to work well in reducing these differences.     

Does globalization drive long-run inequality within OECD countries? A guide to policy making

We analyse around four decades of annual time-series data revisiting the long-run relationship between globalization and income inequality for 24 OECD member countries across different geographical regions, applying the Yamamoto-Kurozumi multivariate vector autoregression (VAR) framework. We observe that rapid globalization is not the key cause of rising long-run intra country inequality. This result is obtained by controlling for growth, terms of trade, minimum wage legislation, and unionization and found robust by further controlling education. Most of the countries in our study with a long-run relationship reveal the robust reverse causal impact of rising globalization on reducing inequality. Our impulse response breakdown across various sub-components of globalization suggests that economic globalization is not a primary contributor to long-run inequality for developed industrialized countries. Our framework guides future research to concentrate more on country-specific relationships, with policy guidance tailored for each country based on their level of economic development and institutional quality.     

Transporting attachment and biobehavioral catch-up to Norwegian child welfare services: A feasibility study

Transportation of evidence-based programs (EBPs) to a new cultural setting is often preferred over the comprehensive process of developing a new program. Intervention fidelity has been suggested as a predictor of successful transportation. The present study examined whether fidelity and parent behavior improved when implementing the U.S.-developed Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) intervention in Norwegian child welfare services (CWS). 11 child welfare workers received training and supervision to become ABC parent coaches. Fidelity was assessed through video-recordings of parent coaches' in vivo feedback at each home-visit session. Parent sensitive behavior was assessed using video-recordings of parent–child interactions, recorded before each ABC session. Mixed effects modeling showed that ABC fidelity increased over the course of training and supervision. Furthermore, parent behavior improved over the course of families' exposure to the intervention. These demonstrate that an EBP transported to a novel cultural setting can obtain promising levels of fidelity and intervention outcomes.     

Smaller net or just fewer to catch? Disentangling the causes for the varying sizes of minimum income schemes

The number of social assistance recipients varies significantly between welfare states. Social assistance is a last-resort residual benefit, so a high number of receipts may be related to policies for first-tier benefits, social assistance and their implementation, as well as need factors (unemployment rate and low income). Considering the strong political will to diminish the receipt of last-resort benefits, we demonstrated a way to decompose the reasons for eligibility in a cross-national analysis of two Nordic countries, namely Finland and Sweden. By using administrative register microdata, eligibility simulations and policy swaps, we found that the legislative features of social assistance, such as more extensive benefit norms and earning disregard, contribute to Finland's higher eligibility rate and likely explain some of the reasons for its higher number of recipients. Finland also exhibited lower non-take-up rates among those eligible, which implies better access to benefits than in Sweden.     

金融合作深化与新兴国家共同发展——基于金砖国家的一个视角

在经济金融全球化时代，金融对经济社会的驱动作用日益显著，国际金融合作成为促进国家经济发展、参与国际经济金融合作和治理更加重要的选择。目前，因大宗商品价格下跌、一般制造品市场需求乏力、发达市场波动及美国收紧量化宽松政策等引发的新兴国家金融震荡、贸易下降及增长减速等难题，稳定金融、强化增长动力以及提高全球金融经济治理权是其面临的共同挑战，而深化金融合作不失为应对挑战的关键抓手和平台。本文在分析金融合作对于新兴国家的代表性群体金砖国家共同发展的意义、背景及主要内容的基础上，探讨其面临的挑战及出路，以期充实相关研究并为所有新兴国家深化金融合作提供政策参考。