Employment structure in China from 1990 to 2015

2021 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 168-190
Author(s):  
Peng Ge ◽  
Wenkai Sun ◽  
Zhong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Employment Structure

scholarly journals How Do the Population Structure Changes of China Affect Carbon Emissions? An Empirical Study Based on Ridge Regression Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3319
Author(s):  
Chulin Pan ◽  
Huayi Wang ◽  
Hongpeng Guo ◽  
Hong Pan
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Ridge Regression ◽  
Employment Structure ◽  
Consumption Structure ◽  
Structure Changes ◽  
Size Population ◽  
Ridge Regression Analysis

This study focuses on the impact of population structure changes on carbon emissions in China from 1995 to 2018. This paper constructs the multiple regression model and uses the ridge regression to analyze the relationship between population structure changes and carbon emissions from four aspects: population size, population age structure, population consumption structure, and population employment structure. The results showed that these four variables all had a significant impact on carbon emissions in China. The ridge regression analysis confirmed that the population size, population age structure, and population employment structure promoted the increase in carbon emissions, and their contribution ratios were 3.316%, 2.468%, 1.280%, respectively. However, the influence of population consumption structure (−0.667%) on carbon emissions was negative. The results showed that the population size had the greatest impact on carbon emissions, which was the main driving factor of carbon emissions in China. Chinese population will bring huge pressure on the environment and resources in the future. Therefore, based on the comprehensive analysis, implementing the one-child policy will help slow down China’s population growth, control the number of populations, optimize the population structure, so as to reduce carbon emissions. In terms of employment structure and consumption structure, we should strengthen policy guidance and market incentives, raising people’s low-carbon awareness, optimizing energy-consumption structure, improving energy efficiency, so as to effectively control China’s carbon emissions.

The decline and fall of a working classicist

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Clare
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Employment Structure ◽  
Family Wealth ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Class Background ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

Although the academy tends not to recognize it, scholars and students from working-class backgrounds are automatically at a disadvantage. To demonstrate both sides of the university experience, I provide here a detailed, personal account of my journey from undergraduate to postgraduate to post-Ph.D. researcher. I pay special attention to my chosen subject of classics and ancient history, an area of study with its own set of class-based problems – for while those from working-class backgrounds might be (and are) subject to classism in any discipline, the seemingly inherent elitism of the classics and ancient history field makes it doubly hard for the underprivileged to succeed. I begin by illustrating how ‘working-class knowledge’ of popular culture granted me access into an otherwise closed, exclusionary set of subject materials and go from here to detail how such work is undervalued by the field, before ending on the violent effects that the all-too-familiar casualized employment structure has on those would-be academics who lack access to family wealth, savings and freedom of opportunity/action. Ultimately, I try to show how that – no matter how hard you try – if you are from working-class background, you are highly unlikely to succeed in the modern-day academic system.

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