Employment of seafarers in the EU context: Challenges and opportunities

The EU is the leading maritime power with approximately 3 million people in total working in its thriving maritime industries. It is the aim of the present paper to examine the status of the EU-registered and -controlled fleet, provide an overview of contemporary forces in the shipping business, which affect employment of EU seafarers, and discuss principal EU initiatives in support of the competitiveness of the EU shipping and employment opportunities for EU nationals in it. Among the issues under consideration will be the role and effect of third party flags, cost considerations, the maritime cluster effect, and regulatory burdens.     

北京市就业密度分布的空间特征

本文分析了2008年北京市就业密度空间分布的现状结构,并运用非参数局部回归的方法模拟了2004年和2008年北京市的就业密度陆线,进而分析北京市就业密度分布的空间特征。研究表明：从就业密度的角度,2004年～2008年间,在城市规划的引导作用下,尽管城市单中心结构仍然突出,经济空间结构已经开始出现多中心发展的雏形。其中...     

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关于我校毕业生就业意向的调查分析

通过问卷调查的方式，从毕业生的专业认识、就业意识与就业准备、对学校相关部门服务的意见三个方面，了解了广东海洋大学毕业生就业思想动态和择业价值取向。发现了目前就业指导工作中存在的部分问题，为学校开展就业指导研究和实际工作提供了客观依据。     

基于捕获−再捕获方法的城市旅游非正规就业群体规模测算——来自北京市的实证研究

非正规就业是旅游就业体系中的重要组成部分,在推动城市旅游经济增长方面发挥着不可替代的作用。以故宫博物院、颐和园等北京10个典型景区为例,调查研究了城市旅游景区非正规就业者的群体特征,并探索性地将测量野生动物和敏感人群数量的“捕获–再捕获”及蒙特卡罗模拟方法引入研究,对该群体的规模进行了测算。研究发现：①城市景区旅游非正规就业群体多为低人力资本从业者,青壮年女性居多,以纪念品（土特产）商贩和导游人员为主,多来自就近地区。②北京10个典型城市景区的旅游非正规就业群体规模较小,大约有1 126人,这与严格的城市人口疏解和旅游业治理举措密切相关。③“捕获–再捕获”方法可以有效测量流动性大、隐蔽性强的旅游非正规就业者的群体规模,具有一定的科学性和可靠性。     

“家”“业”可否兼得：青年农民工回流意愿研究

基于个体心理决策视角,使用定量研究与定性研究相结合的方法,分析流出地的“家”和“业”对青年农民工回流意愿的影响过程。研究发现：文化意义上的“家”是影响青年农民工回流意愿的深层因素,但其影响还需要“业”的强化。流出地的“家”和“业”共同作用,形塑青年农民工的回流意愿。“家”的文化观念通过新的人生节点、具有挑战性的家庭责任和规划中的家庭发展触发青年农民工回流;“业”的想象则通过选择新的就业地点、渴望好的就业条件、寻找独特的创业资源和改变旧的发展路径增强青年农民工回流意愿,由此实现回流决策中的“家”“业”兼得。在中国区域发展不平衡、不充分的情况下,流出地政府既要大力发展经济、增加就业机会、提升收入水平,又要加大对回流的青年农民工的创业扶持,使他们的“业”得到持续强化,“家”“业”可以持续兼得。在对农民工群体进行研究时,可以把“家”作为一个关键的切入点,从“家”出发构建中国话语的分析框架,这蕴含了创建中国本土人口流动理论的可能性。     

Modeling the Probability of Niche Employment: Exploring Workforce Segmentation in Metropolitan Atlanta

This paper examines employment concentrations (commonly called niches) in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Concentration ratios (created from 1990 5% Public Use Microdata Samples) reveal niches characterized by gender, race, and ethnicity. White workers of both sexes commonly hold niches in white-collar occupations and non-Whites (Blacks, Mexicans, Koreans, Chinese, and Asian Indians) primarily occupy niches as blue-collar, or secondary service workers. Chinese, Korean and Asian Indian males are the only groups of non-Whites to hold jobs in a significant number of white-collar employment niches. Generally, non-White niches pay very little and for women, especially, niche employment is generally not very lucrative. Logistic regression models explore predictors of niche employment and indicate that the social constructs of ethnicity and race have the most substantial impact upon an individual's odds for niche employment. Human capital measures alone do not sufficiently account for niche employment, and segmentation theory best explains the phenomenon.     

Gendering Job Competition: Immigration and African American Employment in Chicago, 1990-2000

This investigation of demographic changes between 1990 and 2000 within African American employment concentrations in Chicago finds that the effects of immigration on African American employment differ by gender. Black women increasingly shared their niche industries with immigrant women without being displaced, a pattern of coexistence that indicates the primacy of gender in sorting women into employment. By contrast, similar patterns were absent between African American and immigrant men, and several niche industries reflected competition. Yet economic restructuring more significantly affected African American male and female employment than immigration. Among women, these same trends also affected immigrants. Both groups were adversely affected by the growth of low-wage employment in female-dominated, care-work jobs—their primary industries of overlap. These findings underscore the significance of gender in problematizing ethnic/racial divisions of labor and the need to consider economic consequences that cross these divisions as well as derive from them within urban economies.     

农村劳动力转移就业环境认知研究体系与方法

根据行为地理学观点,通过农村劳动力转移就业决策过程分析,认为农村劳动力转移就业环境认知,是指农村劳动力面临多样化的就业地和就业环境,对其进行的环境外观感觉以及整体认识和综合解释过程。依据地理认知理论,构建了农村劳动力转移就业环境认知研究体系:基于目标与过程的转移就业环境认知研究;基于个体变量与群体文化因子的转移就业环境认知研究;转移就业环境认知层次(环境特征感知、环境对象认知、环境格局认知)研究。探讨了农村劳动力转移就业环境认知研究的基本方法:民族志方法、定量关系模型、时空路径等。可以预测,农村劳动力转移就业环境认知研究将促进混合研究路径的发展。