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Digital Solutions for Financial Empowerment of Overseas Migrants in Asia
Registration via https://hkust.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sg7SooAJTVCOo_CuLrFV8g Background Nearly 90 million international migrants (one-third of the world’s total) are sourced from the Asia-Pacific region. About a third of this migration takes place within Asia and is linked to formal, short-term ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/conference/2022/digital-solutions-for-financial-empowerment-of-overseas-migrants-in-asia-with-adb-and-hkust-cep
To Save or Not to Save: Why Do Migrant Domestic Workers Borrow So Much?
Many migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Hong Kong appear to finance foreseen expenditures through high-interest loans rather than through savings, thereby incurring a sizable cost. MDWs who are financially literate are just as likely to borrow as those who are not; those with savings accounts appear more likely to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/visaria-migrant-workers-borrow-so-much-tlb45
APEC Labor Mobility Framework to Achieve Win-Win for Asia
Key insights At the “Workshop on the Development of an APEC Labor Mobility Framework” in Nha Trang, Vietnam, Albert Park, Director of HKUST IEMS, addressed representatives from multilateral organizations and international leaders from the region recommending that both sending and receiving countries ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/iems-updates/2017/apec-labor-mobility-framework-to-achieve-win-win-for-asia
Registration Status, Occupational Segregation, and Rural Migrants in Urban China
Abstract Xiaogang Wu examines the central role of occupation as the “reward packages” in creating earnings disparities between rural migrants and local workers in urban China’s labor markets. He analyses data from the population mini-census of China in 2005 which shows that, rural ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2015/xiaogang-wu-registration-status-occupational-segregation-and-rural-migrants-in-urban-china
2015: Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?
Abstract For more than two decades, journalists have been interpreting official statements on reforms of the hukou system as presaging an end to the system. The latest round of news in this genre have appeared in the last few weeks after China unveiled last March its long-awaited National New-type Urbanization Plan, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2015/kam-wing-chan-is-china-abolishing-the-hukou-system
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