Emerging,attracting and challenging: how some of the world's largest media companies perceive their challenges and opportunities in China

China's emerging media market, despite having heavy entry regulations, attracts foreign companies that suffer from saturation and stagnation in their home markets. This paper seeks to provide an understanding of how some of the world's largest media companies perceive their opportunities and challenges in China by discussing research interviews with company managers. It analyzes the findings of the interviews in the light of existing conceptualizations, which suggest that in emerging and opening media markets, cultural barriers to the success of imported media increase with the waning interest in foreign media and the increasing strength of the domestic media industry. The article suggests that Chinese audiences will become more inwardly oriented in their media tastes and that if the Chinese media market opens further in the future, the existing advantages that the Western media companies appear to have over their Chinese counterparts will have diminished by that time.     

Female Sex Trade Workers,Condoms, and the Public-Private Divide

Abstract

This qualitative study explored the ways in which social relations within the public (work) as opposed to the private (home) contexts shape variable condom use among female sex trade workers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 68 female sex workers working in various settings in an urban center in Eastern Canada. The findings suggest that work-related social relations, and the meanings associated with condoms at work, create a strong confidence in condom use. Within the private setting, such confidence was also evident but most women reported either not using condoms or only using “sometimes.” Nevertheless, many women do engage in risk management within the private setting, and take active steps to decrease their risks of Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV)/Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).     

长三角都市圈与东盟国家贸易实证分析

从长三角都市圈与东盟双边贸易发展的理论分析、现状和特点人手,结合长三角都市圈与东盟双边贸易历年数据、贸易结合度指数、出口依存度指数以及拉动经济增长的线性回归模型等进行实证分析,得出长三角都市圈与东盟双边贸易的结构特点及发展趋势,并对促进双边贸易的扩大发展提出有效措施.     

Measuring the Influence of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Experiences

This article investigates the comprehensive effects of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on the amount of time and unemployment that individuals report between jobs. The econometric model jointly determines the effects of UI on the lengths of nonemployment spells, the classification of these spells as unemployment, and the likelihood of collecting program benefits. The model carefully attempts to isolate variation in UI benefits attributable to differences in generosity across programs to avoid biases in estimating policy effects induced by other contaminating sources of benefit variation. Using data on men from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the empirical results find (a) UI recipients typically experience longer spells between jobs, at least up to the exhaustion of UI benefits, and report substantially larger fractions of these spells as unemployment; (b) weekly benefit amounts exert no significant influence on the likelihood of UI recipiency, on the length of spells between jobs, or on the fraction of these spells classified as unemployment; and (c) increases in weeks of UI eligibility raise the likelihood of UI collection and lengthen the number of weeks of unemployment between jobs by inducing long spells to become longer and not by altering short-duration behavior.     

旅行合同纠纷中的非财产性损害赔偿论

旅行承办人违约造成旅客非财产性损害(包括固有利益和非财产性的利益损害),旅客能否要求违约方承担以及承担什么样的赔偿责任是许多国家立法、判例和学说所不能回避的问题。从各旅行大国的学说、判例的比较分析中,结合我国现有法律规定和实践中的做法,为其赔偿制订正当性的理论和实证法上的说明,以期对我国旅游合同纠纷的解决有所裨益。     

侵害生命权损害赔偿体系构成研究

侵害生命权所造成的损害是一个有着多个受害人的多种损害的体系,对侵害生命权的损害赔偿问题应从体系化的角度来予以研究,才能真正贯彻全面赔偿的原则。这一研究体系包括侵害生命权的受害主体、损害事实、损害赔偿请求权人和赔偿范围。     

我国目前法制环境下的资产证券化对象选择

通过对资产证券化之交易机制、法律关系等基本问题的分析,讨论我国目前资产证券化的对象所应该具备的基本要素,最后对我国目前资产证券化的一些资产状况进行分析,在我国目前可以证券化的对象包括住房抵押贷款、生产工具抵押贷款、银行的汽车抵押贷款、基础设施的收费类资产等,以及在我国目前暂时不宜证券化的资产———银行不良资产。     

无近亲属受害人之死亡赔偿请求权

无近亲属或近亲属不明的受害人被伤害致死,其生前所欠医疗费、护理费、交通费、住宿费的债权人,得向加害人行使具有物权性的追偿权;有权接受其遗产者得提出误工费、死亡补偿费赔偿;料理死者后事者享有丧葬费等费用请求权;与受害人间无法定权利义务的扶养人、被扶养人有权享有属于遗产部分的请求权.死亡赔偿是加害人必须承担的责任,国家接受死亡赔偿具有正当性,民政部门作为请求权人具有妥当性.立法建议民政部门接受赔偿后,代为支付上述费用后,所余归国家所有.     

Improving OpenURL Menus: User Testing of Revisions to SFX® Menus

Twenty-one volunteers tested the usability of revisions to the Texas A&M University Libraries' SFX® OpenURL link resolver menus, including the addition of Ex Libris' new bX™ recommendation service and a plug-in which pulls additional information about the journal into the menu. The volunteers also evaluated the quality and desirability of the bX recommendations and discussed their preferences for help options and full-text format. Results of the usability testing are reported along with the resultant menu changes. This study will be of interest to librarians implementing or redesigning OpenURL menus as well as those interested in the user experience.     

The impact of US tariffs against China on US imports: Evidence for trade diversion?

We provide evidence on the existence of short-run trade diversion effects towards third countries as a consequence of tariff shocks. We exploit sudden policy changes in the context of the trade dispute between the United States and China in 2018. Based on a data set covering monthly product-level information on US imports from 30 countries for the period 2016 until May 2019, we employ a difference-in-differences estimation framework. Doing so, we can show a strong negative direct effect of US tariffs on US imports from China, but do not find evidence for significant short-run trade diversion effects towards third countries.