Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Winston Halapua, Living on the fringe: Melanesians of Fiji Patrick Fuery and Nick Mansfield, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Keith Chambers and Anne Chambers, Unity of Heart. Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society Alice Aruhe’eta Pollard, Givers of Wisdom, Labourers without Gain: Essays on Women in Solomon Islands Prema–chandra Athukorala, Chris Manning and Piyasiri Wickramasekara, Growth, Employment and Migration in Southeast Asia: Structural Change in the Greater Mekong Countries Edvard Hviding and Tim Bayliss–Smith, Islands of Rainforest: Agroforestry, Logging and Eco–tourism in Solomon Islands     

Employment

The 1990s began with unprecedented market conditions for labour: unemployment rates were reaching their highest level in over 50 years, participation in the labour market had fallen to historically low levels and net emigration was widespread across all occupations. It seemed that things could only get better. While some did benefit from the limited growth that took place in the nineties, many did not. The greater inequality generated during the 1980s was fanned by the deregulation of the labour market and remained undiminished throughout the following decade. The marked reduction in manufacturing employment in the 1980s continued into the early 1990s negatively impacting Maori and Pacific Island men and women in particular. Increasingly post‐secondary school education became necessary to gain entry into regular work and those with little formal education and few work skills fell further down the queue. These changes are closely allied to the processes of globalisation which is already exercising considerable influence on the employment opportunities of New Zealanders.     

The geography of the wages: Chinese cities 1989 and 1997

Improving national average income and reducing regional income inequality often serve as dual goals of economic development in a country. After over twenty years of economic reforms, China has been fairly successful in achieving the first goal, but failed in the second. This paper uses recent data with a sharper resolution to examine the variation of average wages across Chinese cities 1989–1997. Widening wage inequalities across cities are observed during the period. This research also seeks to explain the variation of wages between cities by factors such as agglomeration (density and city size), location advantages (distances from central cities and from the coastline), educational attainment, industrial structure and administrative hierarchy. Many of the factors are found to be important in explaining wage differences in Western countries but are yet to be tested in China. Some factors such as distance from the coast, industrial structure and administrative hierarchy are considered because of China’s unique social and economic systems.     

浅析农民经济收入问题─—以长武王东沟试验区为例

近10年来,长武王东沟试区农民经济收入有了较大提高?我们通过分析研究认为,果业亦然是农民经济收入的支柱行业;工副业将由一个“松散结构”变成农民经济收入支撑系统中一个很重要的产业;商品生产将会贯穿于农业系统循环的始终?在今后一段时间,农民的经济收入将会有更大的提高?     

基于灰色系统理论的收益还原法在农用地估价中的应用

收益还原法是农用地估价中的常用方法，但是目前利用此法评估农用地地价时，采用实际纯收益代替预期纯收益而导致评估的地价不合理。该文系统地论证了利用灰色系统建模来预测农用地预期纯收益的可行性，并分析了整个建模过程。最后将模型应用到湖北省武穴市农用地估价中。结果表明，应用此模型预测的后验差比值为0.21，小误差频率为1，精度达到一级。利用预测得到的预期纯收益来评估农用地地价与传统方法相比更趋合理，具有实际的应用价值。     

多因素影响下农民收入增加的综合能力分析——以贵州省新农村“百村试点”为例

将省级新农村建设示范点小康村、温饱村、贫困村各自相邻(农村经济水平尽量相近)的对照村(非示范村)作为对比进行抽样调查,通过多因素影响对增加农民收入的综合能力进行分析,结果表明:对照村农民人均年收入均低于示范村,说明政府资金投入对示范村的当地产业发展、相应的配套政策和宏观指导有积极的推动作用;农民人均年收入、人力资本受教育程度、区位优势是农民收入增加3个主要制约因素;外出务工的工资性收入的增加、贵州近年自然灾害频发、农业生产的经济成本不断提高是农村劳动力减半的主要原因。根据以上调研结果,提出贵州新农村建设需要采取的相应对策。     

基于灰色关联理论的海南省农民人均纯收入分析

运用灰色系统理论的关联分析方法，对海南省农民人均纯收入与影响农民人均纯收入的主要因素进行了实证研究。研究结果表明，各因素对农民人均纯收入影响的关联序为：农业贷款、乡镇企业贷款(0.838 2)＞农业机械总动力(0.835 3)＞农业生产资料价格总指数(0.796 4)＞农村家庭从业人员(0.730 3)＞粮食单位面积产量(0.701 1)＞农业人口数(0.684 3)＞农业生产总值(0.678 9)＞耕地总面积(0.670 8)＞粮食占农作物总播种面积比重(0.644 4)。在此基础上，根据关联度的分析，对如何发挥主导因素的作用，提高海南省农民人均纯收入提出了政策建议。     

我国房产税开征实效分析

文章结合目前已初见的房产税开征效果,分别探讨其对房地产市场、财政收入和社会贫富差距的实际影响,比较其与理论期望的差距与原因,得出房产税的效果是长期的,另外现行的方案有待向存量房开征房产税、采用差异化和累进制税率相结合方向改善,且配套完善的房地产相关政策,才能更好地实施其政府调控作用。     

杨格不等式的推广和最优化解的存在域

给出了均值不等式和杨格不等式的推广形式,讨论了杨格不等式的最优化问题,并且给出了杨格不等式最优化解的存在域.     

河南农产品主产区农民收入增长因素分析

在对河南１８地市农村统计资料进行聚类、回归分析的基础上，找出了影响河南农产品主产区农民收入增长的因素。认为畜牧业、非农产业的发展是提高农民收入的关键因素，并提出农村产业结构调整等政策建议。