Emigration and stability in Hong Kong
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Increasing emigration from Hong Kong may threaten its economic stability. In 1990, approximately 1% of the population, comprising young, educated, middle-class professionals emigrated. Better job opportunities and the threat to personal freedom when Hong Kong becomes a special administrative region (SAR) of China in 1997, are the main reasons for emigration. Hong Kong, however, can balance its brain drain by a proportionate replenishment of manpower. Moreover, its social structure is unlikely to collapse since the government only plays a supportive role in business.
Publication Name: Asian Survey
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0004-4687
Year: 1992
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After the Hong Kong miracle: women workers under industrial restructuring
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Industrial restructuring in the manufacturing sector has adversely affected the employment of women workers in Hong Kong. In a stronger global competition, manufacturers are relocating their factories to countries with lower labor rates. The growth of financial and business services in Hong Kong has also resulted in a slack in domestic production. The female wage-earners in Hong Kong suffer from higher rate of unemployment, declined standards of living and demoralization due to the structural changes in the Asian-Pacific region.
Publication Name: Asian Survey
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0004-4687
Year: 1997
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Income inequalities under economic restructuring in Hong Kong
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The changing trends and magnitudes of income disparity among Hong Kong's different income groups are assessed with the help of the household income data. The factors responsible for this disparity, particularly in the period of economic restructuring of the 1990s, are examined.
Publication Name: Asian Survey
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0004-4687
Year: 2004
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