Job Satisfaction and Alcohol Consumption: Empirical Evidence from China

Despite growing attention to job satisfaction as a social determinant of alcohol-related behaviors, few studies focus on its diverse impacts on alcohol consumption. Using data from the China Family Panel Study in 2018, this study uses logistic regression analysis to examine how job satisfaction affects alcohol consumption in China, finding that people who were satisfied with their jobs were more likely to be regularly drinking. Employed people who were satisfied with their working environment and working hours were more likely to regularly drink, but those who were satisfied with their wages and working security were less likely to be regularly drinking. Findings suggest that the link between job satisfaction and alcohol consumption is dynamic. Employment policies, working wellbeing improvement programs, and alcohol policy improvement should, therefore, be designed on the basis of a comprehensive account of entire job-related attitudes.

A Quantitative Study on the Policy Text of Chinese Government Purchasing Public Sports Services under the Background of the Smoking Ban: From the Perspective of Policy Tools

Under the background of the smoking ban China, the quantitative analysis of policy texts is adopted to analyze 90 existing policy texts that are closely related to the government's purchase of public sports services in China. A two-dimensional analysis framework of policy instruments is constructed in this paper to analyze the government's purchase of public sports services policy from the perspective of the Y dimension of the policy instruments, which includes three participants: government departments, social organizations and individual citizens, and the X dimension of the economic, political, administrative, management and social policy instruments, revealing the concrete performance of the government's purchase of public sports services policy as the transformation of government functions. Some problems such as insufficient use of some policy instruments in the policy text and further improvement of the management system are found, and corresponding suggestions are put forward in order to provide theoretical reference for policy improvement.

The Effect of Policymaking Improvement in the Energy Field on the Security of Iraq

Energy plays an underlying role in the life of industrial economics of societies. This means that whenever energy is available sufficiently and timely, economic development will also be possible. Moreover, foreign and international policies can be shaped by various factors and have different orientations in relation to these factors. One of the requirements for growth and development in the country is the adoption of appropriate policy and diplomacy to ensure energy security. To the awareness of each other energy security policy, countries can follow cooperative relations and participation by adopting appropriate policy and sophisticated diplomacy, which will result in more profits. The important point is that the regional developments have a significant impact on energy and its security, including sanctions. The current study, using descriptive-analytical method, attempts to investigate the impact of policy improvement in the energy field on the security of Iraq.

Open Migration Policy and Security

The advent of post-colonial era shows Asia-Pacific regions such as Malaysia, China, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have restricted migration policy. Despite the restriction, intellectual debates about the prospect of having open migration grew. The debates generally concentrate on what exactly are the benefits and risks of introducing open migration. This paper seeks to discuss what exactly are the benefits and risk of having open migration policies. To do so, it is argued that explanation on what exactly are the benefits and risk of having open migration policy must be tracked down by analyzing the security, economic and cultural issues in receiving country. Accordingly, based on literature as well as documents review, this paper suggest that open migration policy can be a source of security threats in receiving country which including the way that open migration may bring about uncontrolled population growth. In contrast, open migration policy may bring about economic and cultural enrichment in receiving country. Therefore, given the fact that open migration may bring about risks and benefits to receiving countries, this paper also explores the prospect of migration policy improvement as means of application for not only preventing the country form any risks, but also consolidating the economic and cultural enrichment though migration policy.

Determinants of Investment Timing of Government Venture Capital Guiding Funds in China

With the prosperity of venture capital, all kinds of government venture capital guiding funds have sprung up, and the scale is explosive growth. However, the current investment of government guiding funds in enterprises has not fundamentally solved the financial difficulties in the early development of enterprises. This study examines the determinants of investment timing of government guiding funds. We investigate this question using the data of China’s new three board companies that have been invested by government guiding funds in the year of 2015-2016. We find that government guiding funds enter the enterprises into developed areas earlier. The innovation ability and the market competitiveness of the invested enterprises are positively correlated with the investment timing of government guiding funds. There is no significant relationship between the investment proportion of government guiding funds and the timing of entering the enterprises. The research of this paper can provide theoretical reference for the subsequent optimization of the resource allocation and provide ideas and methods for the policy improvement and management optimization of government venture capital guiding funds in the future.