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Asian Economic Development Conference 2026 -- Call for Papers
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asian Development Bank Institute, in collaboration with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will co-host the 5th Asian Economic Development Conference on 13-14 June 2026 in Hong Kong, China, supported by the IEMS. We invite researchers to submit their original ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/conference/2025/adb-2026
GBA Career Exploration@Qianhai
GBA Career Exploration at Qianhai  On 7 November 2025, EY, Dean of Business and Management (DBM), and HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS) co-organized the “GBA Career Exploration@Qianhai”, bringing together 50 students from HKUST and HKUST (Guangzhou) to explore ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/iems-updates/2025/gba-career-exploration-qianhai
Webinar by ADB on COVID-19, Technology, and Polarizing Jobs
COVID-19 is driving economies into recession, putting many jobs at risk. Up to 242 million full-time jobs could be lost globally, with 70% of these in Asia and the Pacific. Informal employees in vulnerable sectors will be hard hit and many middle-skilled workers face being ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/iems-updates/2020/adb-webinar-on-covid-19-technology-and-polarizing-jobs
Problem solving and human skills increasingly valuable in China and beyond, suggests Park
The future of work in China and globally will increasingly value the ability of highly skilled workers to solve problems and supervise and interact with others, as Albert Park, Director of the Institute, has found from his research program to analyse data on jobs in China. He believed that globalization and structural ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2019/park-future-work-china-word-sbm-scmp
Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Seminar Video (Hosted on YouTube) The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work has been a key feature of labour markets in recent decades. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of particular tasks differs between workers performing seemingly ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2019/piotr-technology-skills-and-globalization
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