Measuring the impact of prices on inequality: With applications to Thailand and Korea

This paper develops a new methodology to compute social cost of living indices. These indices indicate whether or not price changes have a favourable (or unfavourable) impact on the welfare of the poor. The indices are derived on the basis of two alternative classes of social welfare functions. The methodology developed in the paper is applied to compute social cost of living indices for Thailand and Korea. The empirical results show that changes in prices have generally affected the poor more adversely than the non-poor.     

Inequality measurement and the time structure of household income in Israel

The aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate the effect of the length of the accounting period on indices of inequality of household income in Israel. There are three main findings: (1) The analysis of the impact of the accounting period on the Gini index of inequality can be done in a way which is identical to analyzing the effect of the accounting period on the coefficient of variation; (2) changing the accounting period from one to three months decreases, on average, the Gini index of inequality by about 1.7%. Furthermore, the Gini index calculated from a three-month accounting period was 3.9%–4.1% higher than the index based on a 12-month period. The change in the accounting period from 12 months to three months accounts for 27% to 37% of the increase in inequality in the last two decades, depending on the type of income considered. (3) The above relationship is stable over the years but is sensitive to the definition of income.     

社会性别视角下的妇女与艾滋病研究综述

社会性别视角下的艾滋病研究与社会性别理论在我国的发展历程密切相关,其研究过程可以分为1998—2002年的起步阶段和2003年以来的发展阶段。社会性别视角下的艾滋病研究突出了作为主体的女性,认为社会性别不平等是艾滋病流行特别是在女性中流行的深层原因,主张在艾滋病防治与研究中实行社会性别主流化。     

歌词流变及其创作思考

论及我国歌曲中的歌词流变过程,阐述歌词寻求独立价值的创作思考,提出文学形象与音乐形象的完美统一是歌词创作的永恒目标。     

年代命名的背后:透视"80后"写作

从20世纪末始,在中国当代文坛掀起了一股新兴而强劲的浪潮———“80后”写作。“80后”写作从个体书写到集体亮相,呈现出以青春伤痕与狂妄为基点,低龄写作为卖点,媒体包装、商业炒作为支点的特点,冲击着文学、教育及社会生活各大领域,引起社会各界的普遍关注。对此,此文试图从“80后”文本的解读来阐释在多元语境下“80后”的写作背景、写作主题,从而为当下文学创作走出困境提供一种可能。     

The effects of different choices of order for autoregressive approximation on the Gaussian likelihood estimates for ARMA models

This paper investigates, by means of Monte Carlo simulation, the effects of different choices of order for autoregressive approximation on the fully efficient parameter estimates for autoregressive moving average models. Four order selection criteria, AIC, BIC, HQ and PKK, were compared and different model structures with varying sample sizes were used to contrast the performance of the criteria. Some asymptotic results which provide a useful guide for assessing the performance of these criteria are presented. The results of this comparison show that there are marked differences in the accuracy implied using these alternative criteria in small sample situations and that it is preferable to apply BIC criterion, which leads to greater precision of Gaussian likelihood estimates, in such cases. Implications of the findings of this study for the estimation of time series models are highlighted.     

Discovering influential cases in linear regression with MINITAB: Peeking into multidimensions with a MINITAB macro

Various diagnostic statistics have been proposed to help identify cases that markedly affect, or influence, the features of a fitted linear regression model. Once influential cases are found, decisions can be made regarding their worth in the model building process. Since a subject data set may contain both singly influential cases and influential multiple case subsets, the capability to assess the joint influence of cases is needed for a complete analysis. The aim of this work is to briefly review Cook’s distance measure for multiple cases, an effective diagnostic for this purpose, and present a method using it to search for influential multiple case subsets. The method is applied in two example analyses by way of a MINITAB Statistical Software macro.     

德意日同盟条约对世界战略格局的影响

德意日三国同盟条约的签订,造成了国际战略格局的重新演变与分化。德意日空前团结, 侵略野心急剧膨胀,不断扩大称霸世界的战争;英美举起抗击侵略大旗,构筑成英美同盟;苏联严守“中 立”,置于战事之外。反法西斯阵营各自为战的局面,便利了法西斯集团的侵略。     

新形势下高校新生班主任工作思路初探

高校扩招后，大学新生所面临的情况日趋复杂，新生班主任如何才能有效地开展新生的学生工作呢？文章对大学生的现状进行分析比较，并对高校新生班主任的工作思路进行初探。     

“性权利”应率先进入“妇女法”——一种理论的说明

在目前,作为一种基本人权的性权利,已经进入了国际人权文件。由于“妇女法”是中国妇女的人权法,因此,性权利率先进入妇女法就既是必要的,也是可能的,这样做具有重要的社会现实意义。