Income Inequality,Welfare and Poverty in Ukraine

Ukraine is now faced with economic crisis on an unprecedented scale. The country is on the brink of hyperinflation. The government has to follow rigorous demand management policies which entail lowering the standard of living of the population. To design policies which protect the poorest and most vulnerable groups in the society, it is important to understand the nature of poverty and income inequality. This study attempts to do exactly this for Ukraine for the first time. The paper demonstrates that the standard of living in Ukraine has been falling at an alarming rate. The government welfare programmes are ineffective in protecting the poorest and most vulnerable groups in the society. This article provides an empirical basis to design appropriate policies, but a lot more work needs to be done.     

Spatial Organization of Fortune Global 500 Corporations in China: An Empirical Study of Multinationals from Japan,the United States,and European Union

Using data on investments in China from Fortune Global 500 multinational corporations (MNCs) based in Japan, the United States, and European Union over a three-decade period, the authors document the gradual expansion of MNCs in China both functionally and geographically. Statistical analysis suggests the existence of significant intra-firm clustering as a result of sequential investments, as well as country-of-origin agglomeration in the case of MNCs from Japan. Disaggregated analysis, however, reveals that functional and cross-functional mutual avoidance (e.g., intra- and inter-firm competition) in the location of MNC subsidiary firms tends to mitigate country-of-origin agglomeration effects. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: D200, D800, G320, L200. 5 tables, 5 figures, 68 references.     

Examining Implementation of the National Voter Registration Act by Nonprofit Organizations: An Institutional Explanation

The 1993 National Voter Registration Act authorizes nonprofit social service organizations to conduct nonpartisan voter registration drives, with the aim of making the process more accessible for low‐income citizens and segments of the population historically underrepresented in the political process. Although more than 15 years have elapsed since this important reform was enacted, very little is known about the extent to which nonprofits have embraced this practice, and what factors explain their decision to do so. Drawing upon institutional theory, this article examines the propensity of nonprofit social service organizations to carry out nonpartisan voter registration and voter mobilization campaigns in a national election year. A series of hypotheses are tested using data from a random sample of several hundred nonprofit service organizations in the United States that were surveyed prior to the 2008 election. Findings suggest that institutional factors, especially state laws, are highly influential in shaping the decision of local level nonprofits to register voters. The article concludes with a discussion of policy implications of this study.     

我国城市休闲化质量测度的实证研究

本文通过构建由公共基础(LB)、消费能力(LC)、产业能力(LP)和特色资源(LF)等4方面指标组成的城市休闲化质量测评体系(LCI),对我国27个省会城市、4个直辖市和5个计划单列市的城市休闲化发展状况进行测度和分析。研究结果表明,在城市休闲化质量的等级分布上,我国绝大多数城市处于较低及以下发展程度;在城市休闲化质量的空间分布上,呈现由东部向中西部递减的格局。     

对旅游就业弹性测量的实证研究 --以浙江省为例

本文对旅游就业弹性进行了线性测量,较之于以往点弹性的测量能够更好的反映旅游经济增长与旅游就业增长之间的关系,测算出的旅游就业弹性大于第三产业的总体水平,因此得出结论：发展旅游业有利于更好地促进就业。本文的创新点在于提出了旅游就业人数的核算方法和旅游业就业弹性的线性测量方法。     

旅游供应链权力转移实证研究

本文在综述渠道权力转移的相关理论和实证研究的基础上,基于舒尔茨的渠道权力对角线转移理论,遵循产业经济学SCP研究范式,利用中国旅游业相关上市公司的ROA、ROE、ROS及MVA数据,对旅游供应链权力转移进行了实证研究。研究结果不支持旅游供应链权力由供应商向中间商发生了转移的假设,文章对这一结果进行了解释和分析。     

旅游服务顾客满意度模型实证研究

作者在文献研究的基础上,构建旅游服务顾客满意度模型,并在广州某餐馆和某宾馆向顾客收集数据,对模型进行实证检验。数据分析结果表明：服务公平性和顾客的消费情感是旅游服务顾客满意程度的重要决定因素;对不同的服务质量属性,实绩和期望与实绩之差对顾客满意度的作用过程不同;顾客的期望对顾客满意度并没有直接影响。     

城市居民乡村旅游满意度的实证研究——以长沙市为例

本文构建了乡村旅游满意度系统模型。以抽样调查的方法取得了长沙市居民乡村旅游满意度的数据,通过均值分析比较乡村旅游各分满意度的高低,发现住宿满意度与餐饮满意度较高,而娱乐满意度与购物满意度较低;通过相关分析发现各分满意度均与总体满意度高度正相关;利用多元回归分析了各分满意度对总体满意的贡献,发现景点质量满意度对乡村旅游总体满意贡献最大,而交通满意度贡献最小;最后,利用单因素方差分析,得出满意度在不同人口特征城市居民中的差异性。在研究结论的基础上。提出了一些提高乡村旅游满意度的建议,并指出了本文研究的不足与下一步研究方向。     

酒店员工激励因素的实证分析

本文重点探讨了酒店员工所重视的多种激励因素。在文献研究和访谈调查的基础上,笔者对酒店员工进行了问卷调查。通过对有效数据进行因子分析,笔者认为酒店员工激励因素主要包括以下九个方面：薪酬;管理制度;同事关系;领导水平;晋升与培训;工作条件;工作本身;信息;奖励。同时,笔者还通过方差分析。对不同管理职位、不同年龄和不同性别的员工所重视的激励因素及其影响程度进行了比较。最后。笔者对酒店如何更有效地激励员工提出了建议。     

城市旅游地游客重游动机实证研究——以厦门市为例

本文以厦门这一典型的城市旅游地为例,在文献回顾、网络文本分析和深度访谈的基础上,基于纵向比较的视角,通过实地的问卷调研和深度访谈,对城市旅游地游客的重游动机进行了实证研究。本研究通过因子分析将厦门城市旅游地游客的重游动机归纳为7项动机因子;通过聚类分析,基于动机的差异将重游游客划分为怀旧型、外界驱动型、猎奇补缺型和分享型4个类型。文章最后针对厦门城市旅游的发展提出了若干建议。     

让游客参与服务他们就一定会很满意吗?——一个有调节的中介模型

本文引入归因理论和公平理论来解释顾客参与服务过程中出现不满意的原因,以旅行社的顾客为调查对象,通过建立结构方程模型,探讨旅行社行业背景下顾客参与的结构维度,分析顾客参与、顾客感知的组织支持、顾客对自身参与表现的满意程度、顾客满意感和顾客归属感这5个变量之间的关系.研究结果表明:(1)顾客感知的组织支持对顾客满意感和归属感有正向影响;(2)顾客参与是顾客感知的组织支持与顾客满意感和归属感之间的关系的中介变量;(3)顾客对自身参与表现的满意程度调节顾客参与的中介效应.     

参展观众旅游消费实证研究——以2005年上海汽车展为例

会展业和旅游业有着极其密切的关系,对旅游业有极强的带动作用.本文以2005上海国际汽车展作为案例实证研究,以实地调查的数据为依据探讨参展观众的本地旅游消费结构,详细分析其构成以及国内外地观众与境外观众、不同身份的参展观众的旅游消费结构差异及其影响.     

Planning Time: An Emergent European Practice

In the 1960s, a reduction in the time spent at work promised an increase in leisure time. Architects and planners thought that the effects of this could lead to a new form of city. Nowadays, new changes in production, technology and gender relationships de-synchronize the time regime and have fundamentally changed life in cities. Tourism and globalization exchange across the world different cultures of time. In France, the UK, and other European countries time policy is dealing with the problems arising from these changes. This article presents a short overview of time planning in Italy in two main domains: time for care, and city time. It focuses on issues such as the social demand for new shops's and services' opening hours, or how the life cycles of individuals and populations are accommodated in urban spaces. Other problems, usually not thought of in terms of time concerns, such as rehabilitation of blighted areas, historic preservation and traffic flow control, may also be treated through a time approach. Two models of planning process are presented at the end of the paper.     

Metropolitan Income Inequality During the 1980s: The Impact of Urban Development, Industrial Mix, and Family Structure

The empirical analysis in this paper explores the interurban variation in family income distribution. The results point to increasing urban development, rising female-headship, a widening educational distribution, and changes in the industrial and occupational mix as major contributing factors to rising inequality. However, the increase in the relative number of multiple worker families was a significant mitigating force to rising inequality. A decomposition of 1979 and 1989 cross-sectional models revealed that while changes in urban family and industrial characteristics have been sources of rising inequality, there has been significant structural change in the urban models acting to decrease inequality.     

Ecological Regression and the Analysis of Voter Behavior

Abstract

The project now underway to produce a new, multi-volume print and online edition of Brian Mitchell's British Historical Statistics is an opportunity to examine the history of the celebrated work. An account of its conception, reception, and evolution provides a window through which to examine a central aspect of economic history's disciplinary history and methodenstreit; certain fundamentals relating to the demand for, and supply of, historical statistics; and to introduce the British Historical Statistics Project, which is now underway but still in its infancy, during which it is closely examining its antecedents in order to learn the correct lessons from that history.     

Foreign Aid and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis

After more than forty years of foreign aid programs and numerous studies of the impact aid has had on economic growth in recipient countries, the strength and nature of the aid-growth relationship is still unknown. This study contends that results from previous studies have in aggregate been inconclusive largely because of methodological limitations and that a significant aid-growth relationship does exist. Further, the nature of the relationship (for example, positive or negative) varies across the level of economic development in aid-receiving countries. The expansion method is used here to expand initial models of economic growth into models which better explain the aid-growth relationship by incorporating the relationships that aid may have with other determinants of economic growth.     

古村落游客感知价值概念模型与实证研究——以张谷英村为例

古村落旅游是一种特殊的乡村旅游、文化生态旅游。识别古村落游客感知价值的内在维度、探明古村落游客感知价值的来源,可以为古村落旅游发展提供理论支持。本文构建了古村落游客感知价值概念模型,并以张谷英古村落为例进行了实证研究。研究初步探明了古村落游客感知价值的来源,并且发现,古村落游客感知价值的内在维度呈三层次贡献分异,认知维显性化,情感维隐性化。