Living Arrangements, Employment Status, and the Economic Well-Being of Mothers: Evidence from Brazil, Chile, and the U.S

Using data from Brazil, Chile, and the U.S., we estimate country specific models of household income that characterize mothers according to their marital status, living arrangement, and employment status. We assess the predicted economic well-being of each type of mother relative to a benchmark of married mothers in the same country, and at various points in the income distribution. We find dramatic cross-country differences in the distribution of mothers across categories, but few differences in each type's relative economic status. In all three countries and at all points in the income distribution, mothers who are the only adults in their households have the lowest levels of predicted income, while married mothers—followed closely by cohabitors—have the highest levels.     

地力山土族生计方式与家庭经济结构

地力山是甘南藏族自治州卓尼县杓哇土族乡的一个纯土族自然村。由于特定的历史、自然和社会原因,形成了以农为主牧业为辅的传统生计方式。随着时代的变化,兼事务工成为了传统生计方式的补充。在地力山土族家庭经济过程中,生计方式支配着资源要素的投入方向,而资源要素在不同方向上的配置最终构成其家庭经济的各个形态,形态之间以及具体形态内部存在的动态性,为其进一步调整提供了内在条件。     

关于行政性收费的几点思考

行政性收费改革是我国税制改革的重要组成部分。了解行政收费的含义,对存在的行政收费进行分析,从而对行政收费进行改革,这对于解决当前税制改革有着很重要的意义。     

试论国际责任制度和现代国际法的新发展

国际责任是现代国际法上最为重要的制度之一。国际责任的理论与制度在20世纪以前的发展可以说是百年一步。随着国际组织法、国际争端法、国际集体安全制度等国际法的部门法的发展,国际责任制度在20世纪有了新的发展。国际责任制度的新发展反过来又促进了国际法相关领域的进一步发展。     

商品经济是农村合作经济组织发展的重要条件

当前农村合作经济组织的兴起和蓬勃发展不是孤立的社会现象,而是农民在商品经济条件下的理性选择.一方面,合作经济组织是商品经济发展的必然要求;另一方面,正是由于商品经济的发展创造和拓展了合作经济组织的生存空间.     

Social Stratification and the Division of Household Labor in Japan: The Effect of Wives' Work on the Division of Labor among Dual-earner Families

Abstract:  This article explores the relationship between social stratification and the division of household labor by examining how the contribution to housework by husbands in dual-earner families varies across the Japanese social stratification structure. First, I review previous studies concerning the determinants of husbands' participation in housework and construct four hypotheses regarding the relative resources explanation, the time constraints explanation, the ideology/sex role explanation, and the alternative manpower explanation. Second, I examine the empirical support for these hypotheses in dual-earner couples and the effect of social stratification on husband's participation in housework, which has not been studied thus far. Third, I investigate the effect of social stratification in more detail. According to the results of TOBIT regressions and other supplementary analyses, the principal findings are as follows:

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  the relative resources explanation is not supported;

       

论"入世"后的职务犯罪及其防治

我国“入世” ,经济运行环境和行政管理模式将发生变化。关税减让、政务公开 ,减少了职务犯罪的机会 ;贸易自由、审批权集中 ,增大了职务犯罪的可能性。减少由“入世”给防治职务犯罪带来的消极影响 ,其根本措施仍是继续坚持“教育是基础 ,法制是保障 ,监督是关键”的方针 ,打防结合 ,标本兼治     

在创新中繁荣和发展哲学社会科学

哲学社会科学植根于人类社会实践,人类社会的发展变化必然要求哲学社会科学与时俱进。哲学社会科学要发展繁荣,就必须回答时代和社会提出的问题,直面人生,直面社会,勇于创新。理论创新是发展繁荣哲学社会科学的重要关键。在创新中繁荣和发展哲学社会科学是哲学社会科学工作者的神圣使命。     

如何完善我国国家审计职责的探讨

近年来,我国社会主义市场经济体制的建立和完善,权力制约机制的建立与加强等都对国家审计有了更高的要求,国家审计也应根据我国审计环境的发展,从完善国家审计法律法规、加强国家审计机关及人员监督等方面入手,进一步完善我国国家审计职责、职权,以更好地为国家经济发展服务。     

THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF BROADBAND HOUSEHOLD INTERNET ACCESS

Broadband changes everything. Or so we are told. But does it? There is only one way to find out - follow people who move from narrowband to broadband internet access and see what changes. This paper reports exactly this kind of analysis using data from a two wave European panel study (e-Living) and the lagged endogenous regression approach to see if switching to broadband increases the time spent online, the use of online communication services, the breadth of internet activities and the amount of online spend, and whether it decreases the time spent watching TV and the level of social leisure activities. The results suggest, in the main, that switching to broadband made little difference for this group of early broadband adopters who were already heavy internet users. There was no evidence of an online spend or social leisure substitution effect although there was evidence of a reduction in time spent watching television, and an increase in email in use, time spent online and breadth of internet use. In all cases however it was the previous levels of behaviour that were the most significant and switching to broadband was, in general, one of the least strong effects.