The Role of Family Income in the Intergenerational Association of AFDC Receipt

Daughters from low‐income families who did not receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are compared to daughters from low‐income families who did receive assistance to better account for family income in the intergenerational association of AFDC. The research models the timing of a daughter's first birth and, for those who become mothers, the number of years a daughter receives any AFDC. Women whose families received AFDC during their childhood are more likely to receive AFDC as adults relative to those women whose families did not receive AFDC. Controlling for family income in a more careful and comprehensive way than past research explains part but not all of the effects of childhood AFDC receipt. Among daughters from chronically poor families, however, parental AFDC use is not associated with additional years of AFDC participation. Although the present research cannot confirm or deny a causal role for parental welfare use, the intergenerational transmission of financial resources does explain part of the intergenerational association of welfare use.     

价值重估的尺度──论五四人学思想及其现代意义

五四新文化运动是一场价值重估运动。五四新文化运动重估一切价值的尺度是什么？在这个问题上，中国学界一直缺乏必要的认识，因而导致了对新文化运动阐释的许多混乱。其实，五四新文化先驱者们的实践早已证明：人，是五四新文化运动的基本出发点和最终目的，也是重估一切价值的最高价值尺度。五四新文化运动的先驱者们用以比较和判断东西方文明优劣的价值标准不是别的，是个人的独立、自由和权利。这是新文化运动的基本态度，因此也决定了新文化运动的根本性质。正因为这样，新文化运动才在中国文化史上具有了划时代的意义。     

A qualitative comparative analysis of strategies for an ageing society, with special reference to pension and employment policies

The primary purpose of this study is to typify the respondent strategies of the OECD countries based on the interconnected structure of income and employment guarantees. More specifically, this article seeks to typify welfare policies into four types (welfare-to-work, welfare emphasis, labour emphasis, market emphasis) based on the leniency of the pension system and active state intervention in employment security. With the resultant four types, this article then places them as the dependent variable while incorporating per capita GDP, aged dependency ratio, pension maturity level, union density, constitutional structure index and degree of decommodification as causal variables. Through this process, this article aims to derive the decisive variable for each type through qualitative comparative analysis.     

民族自治地方农村养老问题与对策初探——以黔东南州锦屏县为例

民族自治地方农村养老工作与构建社会主义和谐社会、社会主义新农村建设、“三农”问题等紧密相关，养老工作能否解决好直接影响到农村的社会稳定、社会的和谐发展和“三农”问题的解决。民族自治地方农村经济相对落后、经济发展不平衡、人口分布不均衡、农村老年人口日益增多、农民工大量外出等现实，给传统养老方式带来了历史性的冲击。这要求建立具有时代特色和地方特色的养老方式。本文在进行充分的实地调查、分析黔东南苗族侗族自治州锦屏县农村现行的养老方式现状、养老方式存在问题的基础上，结合当地实际情况和借鉴其他地方的成功养老方式，提出具体可行的对策。     

基于模糊分析的中国商业银行战略联盟伙伴选择研究

随着金融业务的国际化，战略联盟已经成为银行提高自身竞争力的一个有效手段。研究确定商业银行联盟伙伴选择的原则与标准，根据这些标准，运用模糊聚类分析法对银行潜在的联盟伙伴的选择进行分析，使商业银行有针对性的与一些联盟伙伴发展合作伙伴关系，减少交易成本和搜寻成本，从而提高银行的运作效率。     

现代企业理财新思路--税务筹划

目前,市场竞争日趋激烈,税务筹划成为现代企业理财新思路.本文对常用方法以及应注意的若干方面进行探讨.     

晋商文化及精神对现代工商管理的影响

晋商在明清发展到鼎盛时期,曾是在我国具有重要影响的商邦。他们在长期经营活动中形成的晋商文化以及节俭勤奋、明礼诚信、精于管理、勇于开拓的商业精神是其持续发展的精神动力,成为我国"儒商文化"继承和发展的典范,是我国商业文化史上宝贵的精神财富。弘扬晋商文化及精神,挖掘其内涵,坚持古为今用,将对新晋商的崛起和现代工商企业管理改革与创新产生极为深刻的影响。     

商业保险公司的合约性质

传统观念认为,保险公司是一种特殊的组织,它凭借大数定律把被保险人组织起来,产生自救行为。但是这并不能解释保险公司的投资行为,也不能解释一些保险公司的投资收益占总收益的比率相当大,更不能解释一些保险公司在本原业务的经营出现问题时依靠投资收益走出困境。采用静态分析方法是这一理论的主要局限性。本文拟创造性地综合运用企业理论、金融工程、微观经济学和保险理论的分析方法从一个新的视角──保险企业的合约性质──对保险公司的性质作出分析,并进一步对保险公司为什么需要投资作出新的理论解释。     

International Tax Competition: A Case for International Cooperation in Globalization

The liberalization of international financial flows and foreign direct investment has induced countries to use diverse measures to attract inflow of foreign capital and foreign direct investment, which is expected to have a positive effect on the growth of GDP and thus a positive effect on social welfare. Tax exemption, reduction of tax rate, tax holiday, or diverse subsidies are some of the most important measures used. In this paper we study international tax cooperation, i.e., countries change and especially reduce tax rate for corporate income or for asset revenues to attract inflow of foreign direct investment. Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown the sensibility of foreign direct investment decision with respect to tax rate differences between home countries and host countries. In general, more inflow of foreign direct investment can be expected if the tax rate of the home country is lower than that of foreign countries. This is the main reason for international tax cooperation. In this paper we propose a simple model to prove the sub-optimal Nash non cooperative solution in a two-country tax-competition game. The model shows that international tax cooperation can improve welfare of the participating countries. How to reach a cooperative solution for an international tax competition game (ITCG) is therefore an important issue for further discussions and studies. International institutions can play a crucial role to reach international tax cooperation or international tax harmonization.     

改革和完善会计教育努力推进我国会计标准的国际化

会计标准国际化是经济全球化的必然要求。文章从我国为推进会计标准国际化所做的努力及其存在的差距、改革和完善会计教育、积极推进会计标准国际化等方面进行了有益的探索