Your position in society matters for how happy you are

This article shows that people's perception of their position in society is strongly correlated with their level of happiness, and thus that differences in happiness levels among countries in different welfare state clusters are influenced by people's perceptions of their relative position in society (subjective position). The study drew on data from the European Social Survey. Two important findings emerged from the analysis. First, an individual's subjective position in society is a more important predictor of happiness than objective measures such as income, education and labour market position. Second, the link between individuals’ perceived position in society and their level of happiness is moderated by the welfare state. In the Nordic countries, people's perceptions of their position in society have less influence on happiness whereas in Eastern European countries we found a strong connection between subjective position and happiness.     

An emerging transnational industrial relations? Exploring the prospects for cross‐border labour bargaining

Global union federations (GUFs) and multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been concluding “international framework agreements” (IFAs) to protect their interests amidst the globalizing economic landscape. By modelling the underlying bargaining processes, the authors show that IFAs can be expected when both sides exhibit risk aversion, although the agreement will favour the less risk‐averse side. Since globalization has created fewer vulnerabilities for MNEs than for GUFs, IFAs have so far typically delivered only minimal benefits for labour. But this should change in the future if strengthened transnational union capacities and abilities to threaten MNEs with reputational costs bring greater equalization of attitudes towards risk.     

高等学校校院两级教学督导体系的探讨

从完善现代大学制度、建立高校内部监控机制等视角,分析了高校校院两级教学督导体系的组织架构、职能定位和运行机制,提出了高校教学督导工作新的管理理念和实施方法。     

Who “Fills in” for Siblings and How? A Multilevel Analysis of Personal Network Composition and Its Relationship to Sibling Size1

In the midst of widespread fertility decline, I examine the relationship between sibling number and support network composition using multilevel regression on data from 25 countries. A fundamental structural effect of having fewer siblings is that individuals have a smaller pool of available close‐kin alters with whom to construct support networks. Consequently, networks of people with fewer siblings should be composed of different sorts of relations. Results confirm that such compositional adjustment occurs in systematic ways. Compared to those with three or more siblings, adults with none to two siblings (as separate categories) are more likely to expect support from parents, extended kin, and close friends but not more likely to do so from spouses/partners and children. Single children are also more likely to include neighbors and have smaller‐sized and/or impersonal networks. These findings contradict the primacy of familial ties in social support networks. Moreover, adjustment of support networks towards nonsibling ties occurs in culturally expected ways. Those with fewer siblings are generally only more likely to turn to ties for the types of support typically associated with those relations—parents for instrumental and financial support and friends for emotional support. Single children, however, also violate institutionalized expectations of social support by turning to ties for a wider range of social support. The results suggest that continuing declines in fertility could bring about both reinforcement and rearticulation of the sociocultural framing of close personal relationships. Moreover, consistent with recent research, the results show that personal networks are influenced more by individual‐level than country‐level factors.     

现代服务业供应链整合与上海国际贸易中心建设

在当今经济全球化背景下,供应链日益成为产业组织的一种主流生产模式,高端与专业性服务业的供应链整合尤为重要。服务企业能否形成以其为核心的供应链,关键取决于各自的供应链管理能力。通过考察上海商贸、金融、物流、计算机与信息服务业等涉及国际贸易中心建设的关键服务行业,在分析上海国际贸易中心建设中现代服务业供应链整合发展的现状与存在问题的基础上,提出上海增强服务业供应链整合能力的对策建议。     

韩国劳动力市场灵活稳定性状况研究

根据国际社会提出的灵活稳定性概念对韩国金融危机以后劳动力市场的灵活稳定性状况进行分析。韩国政府采取的许多改革措施没有使劳动力市场的稳定性得到提高,反而使灵活性不断下滑。社会保障体系的不完善及工会组织的政治化是造成韩国劳动力市场灵活稳定性无法提高的主要原因。     

基于福建自贸区视角的涉外旅游人才培养研究

福建自贸区的建成给福建旅游业带来了新的挑战和机遇。随着福建对外开放程度的逐步提高,福建省对涉外旅游人才的要求将进一步严格,涉外旅游从业人员的素质也随之成为关注的焦点。从福建省高校涉外旅游人才培养的现状来看,存在结构不合理、专业化程度低、无法满足市场需求等问题,应从人才集聚战略、人才培养目标、师资队伍建设等方面采取措施。     

白居易融会三教的“中隐”思想及其仕隐心态

白居易的"中隐"思想是对传统仕隐观念的继承、整合和发展,其本质上既区别于隐于山林的"小隐",也与隐于朝市的"大隐"不同,而是隐于地方官、散官、闲官。它巧妙地平衡了集权专制与士大夫独立意识之间的矛盾,是一种能在入世与出世间进退裕如的处世哲学和生活方式。这一以仕求隐的隐逸观,较之魏晋时期"居官无官官之事,处事无事事之心"的仕宦态度要积极得多,它更圆融通达地调谐了身与心、职与事、仕与隐的矛盾,是白居易以儒治身、以佛道修心的人生哲学的具体体现。     

中国农产品市场开放与贸易政策——技术性贸易壁垒的视角

中国加入世界贸易组织以后,严守承诺开放农产品市场,但农产品出口正在成为中美贸易摩擦的主要根源。选取棉花、小麦、稻米和大豆等四种主要农产品,通过测算技术性贸易壁垒,考察净出口波动、产出效率和补贴政策,对中美农产品市场开放程度和贸易政策展开比较分析后发现:美国凭借其生产技术和贸易制度设计上的优势地位,实施严格的技术规制来保护本国农产品市场,向生产者提供巨额补贴以巩固市场竞争力。由于生产技术落后和贸易规则制定话语权的缺失,中国农产品市场开放有背离本国农业发展水平的趋势,产业安全正遭受巨大冲击。中国正在成为新多边贸易体制的重要力量,为打破农产品贸易被动局面,中国应将发展中国家利益纳入贸易制度设计中去,增大补贴范围和补贴力度,提高农业生产技术水平,加强对贸易壁垒的防御能力。     

环境金融的法律原则探讨

环境金融的出现,是对传统金融业的突破和创新,其实质是通过政府配额与市场机制的双重作用,将环境负外部性内部化从而实现环境利益经济化的过程。中国和世界一样,都面临着以环境为发展成本的巨大代价和应对气候变化的双重挑战。目前的国际交易规则基本上是由发达国家发起制定的,要在与发达国家的利益博弈中得以保全,创建中国的环境金融市场就显得尤为迫切。有市场的存在就离不开法律的调整,而要设计出科学合理的环境金融法律制度,首要问题就是研究并制定国际通行的立法原则。