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SCMP: China’s Factory Owners Prefer Robots to Job-Hoppers
Reflecting a fundamental change in China’s labour market, insufficient labour supply has become a primary concern for factory owners, according to a survey of 1,200 Chinese manufacturers. When interviewed by the South China Morning Post, IEMS Director Albert Park suggests that “With high worker turnover, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/chinas-factory-owners-pick-robots-over-job-hopping-workers
China Employer-Employee Survey Releases First Report
HKUST Researchers Reveal Challenges and Hope for Chinese Manufacturers and Workers in Joint-University Cross-province Survey Hong Kong. June 20, 2017 — Time is running out fast for Chinese manufacturers to adapt to an increasingly hostile business environment, as well as for Chinese workers to upskill and keep ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/press-release/china-employer-employee-survey-releases-first-report
Bloomberg: China’s Booming Service Industry Can’t Keep Up With College Grads
In an article about service industry in China published on Bloomberg, Albert Park, Director of HKUST IEMS, cautions that the types of jobs being being created in China may not be able to support the upgrading of the country’s economy. After census data analysis he made a conclusion that the proportion of ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/china-s-booming-service-industry-can-t-keep-up-with-college-grads
Technology or Upskilling? Trends in the Task Composition of Jobs in Central and Eastern Europe
In this paper we analyse the changes in the task content of jobs in Central and Eastern European countries between 1998 and 2013. We link the O*NET data on occupational characteristics with EU-LFS, following the approach of Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003), and Acemoglu and Autor (2011). We find that the CEE countries ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/hardy-technology-or-upskilling
A Routine Transition? Technology, Upskilling, Structural Change and the Evolution of Task Content of Jobs in Central and Eastern Europe
Key insights IEMS Faculty Associate and IBS Director Piotr Lewandowski showed how demand for routine, cognitive tasks are actually rising in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). These tasks are associated with middle-skilled jobs, including entry-level services jobs with repetitive tasks. The CEE region is now seeing ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2016/a-routine-transition-upskilling-piotr-lewandowski
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