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Going Global or Going Home? Unpacking Middle-Aged Hong Kongers’ Emigration Preferences and Intentions
This study strongly suggests that Hong Kong residents who plan on retiring before the legal retirement age are more intent on emigrating away from Hong Kong. There is also strong evidence that individuals who plan on enrolling in the CSSA or Guangdong or Fujian social welfare schemes are more likely to prefer mainland ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/going-global-or-going-home-unpacking-middle-aged-hong-kongers-emigration-preferences-and-intentions-lee-niu-gietel-basten-tlb84
Zweig Identifies Three Obstacles To Bringing Mobile Talents Back to China on a CCG Forum
The 4th Annual China and Globalization Forum hosted by CCG (Center for China and Globalization) was held at Beijing Yintai Centre on May 20. David Zweig, IEMS Faculty Associate, shared his views with the participants of the obstacles of introducing mobile talents in China. In his speech, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2018/zweig-the-obstacles-of-introducing-mobile-talents-in-china
China’s mobility barriers and employment allocations
Abstract China's hukou system imposes two main barriers to population movements. Agricultural workers get land to cultivate but are unable to trade it in a frictionless market. Social transfers (education, health, etc.) are conditional on holding a local hukou. We show that the land policy leads to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/ngai-china-s-mobility-barriers-and-employment-allocations
Centralized pensions would encourage labor mobility, says Prof Park to Bloomberg BlusinessWeek
…One controversial proposal to strengthen the system is to narrow the gap between public and private employee benefits. Another idea is moving the responsibility of managing pensions from villagers and town residents to officials in provincial capitals. Ideally, all the funds would be managed centrally in ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2013/centralized-pensions-would-encourage-labor-mobility-says-prof-park-to-bloomberg-blusinessweek
The Global Distribution of Routine and Non-routine Work
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task intensity (RTI) of ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/piotr-albertpark-simone-global-distribution-routine-work-wp74
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