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A time-series regression analysis of Aid to Families with Dependent Children caseload movements in Los Angeles during the pre-Reagan and post-Reagan time period points to local demographic change as a main cause of rapid caseload expansion. Growing numbers of female-headed households swelled the total number of potential recipients. Meanwhile, a stagnant labor market for low-skilled workers, and the rising cost of living in the locality, further stimulated caseload increases. Results indicate that the extension of restrictive welfare policies will not so much reduce service dependency, as increase extreme poverty and generate longer term welfare dependency in a major urban area.

The author examines China's emerging civil aircraft manufacturing industry and the political questions it raises: why China is concentrating on civil aircraft manufacturing, how the aircraft industry came about in this country, what are China's policy goals in this industry among other issues. The author concludes that China will not pose a serious challenge to the USA or other world aircraft makers soon. (DÜI-Sen)

Employing the segmentation approach, the author explores the relationships between industrial structures and income and gender inequality in manufacturing employment in Hong Kong. He attempts to find out the extent to which factors such as location in different industrial sectors explain the socio-economic well-being of working individuals. (DÜI-Sen)

When Taiwan's first indigenous fighter plane completed a successful test flight in 1989, government economic planners targeted aircraft manufacturing as one of the promising industries for the 1990s. The article examines Taiwan's commercial aircraft manufacturing industry, the linkage between the military aircraft production and commercial aircraft industry, compares Japan, Korea and China in aircraft manufacturing with that in Taiwan, China's wooing of Taiwan to handle joint projects with foreign companies based on division of labour among other issues. (DÜI-Sen)

In order to break out of its diplomatic isolation, Taiwan has employed its economic strength to gain friendship. One way it has beated up this effort has been through the use of foreign aid. The author takes a look at Taiwan's foreign aid policy since the late 1980s by examining the extent of its success and failure and investigating its scope, durability and implications.(DÜI-Sen)

Der Verfasser setzt sich mit der Loyalität der chinesischen Intellektuellen gegenüber der kommunistischen Führung auseinander. Absolute Loyalität, opportunistische Loyalität und Karriereorientierung, Parteiloyalität sowie eine normativ begründete kritische Loyalität werden als unterschiedliche Typen der Loyalität von Intellektuellen in der chinesischen Gesellschaft herausgearbeitet. Der Verfasser analysiert Verhaltensdilemmata chinesischer Intellektueller und zeigt, daß ein systemkonformes Verhalten in der Öffentlichkeit bei gleichzeitiger latenter Opposition eine charakteristische Verhaltensstrategie darstellt. Abschließend wird auf die Bedeutung eines an sozialethischen Maximen orientierten Dissidententums für die politische Kultur in der VR China hingewiesen. (BIOst-Wpt)

USING ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN'S FRAMEWORK OF EXIT, VOICE, AND LOYALTY AS RESPONSES TO DISSATISFACTION WITH ORGANIZATIONS, THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE BEHAVIOR OF CHINESE DISSIDENT INTELLECTUALS. SOME CHOOSE TO ARTICULATE OR "VOICE" THEIR CONCERNS AND CRITICISMS, WHILE OTHERS DECIDE TO WITHDRAW OR "EXIT" FROM THE ORGANIZATION. LOYALTY IS A MAJOR FACTOR INFLUENCING THESE DECISIONS. THE AUTHOR USES A SERIES OF HIRSCHMAN-DERIVED QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE INTERPLAY OF EXIT, VOICE, AND LOYALTY TO EXPLORE THE PREDICAMENT OF CHINESE INTELLECTUALS.