Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong
Auteur : Lui Hon-Kwong
Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong?s economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.2 per cent. In recent years, the widening income dispersion in Hong Kong has caught public attention. This book investigates the economic development and changes in income distribution of Hong Kong from different perspectives.
Based on latest empirical evidence of Hong Kong, the book examines the relationship between economic restructuring and rising income disparity. Public housing programmes in Hong Kong affect half of the population directly and the other half indirectly. This book assesses the redistributive effect of public rental housing on income distribution. Moreover, Hong Kong embarked an ambitious expansion programme of tertiary education in 1989. The expansion represents an exogenous increase in the supply of university graduates and the book evaluates the impact on income distribution. It also investigates the income dispersion among and between natives and immigrants.
Researchers, politicians and policy makers should be interested to learn about the causes of rising income dispersion in post-handover Hong Kong uncovered in this book. Although economic restructuring is named as the prime suspect that caused rising income inequality, the empirical evidence proves otherwise. The book will be of interest to policy makers with implications on social security system and income disparity.
1. Introduction 2. Economic Growth and Income Distribution 3. Economic Restructuring and Rising Income Inequality 4. The Effects of the Expansion of Tertiary Education 5. The Redistributive Effect of Public Housing Policy 6. Poverty and the Working Poor 7. Immigrants and Natives 8. Summary and Concluding Remarks
LUI Hon-Kwong received his Ph.D. in economics from The University of Hong Kong and is now Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing and International Business at Lingnan University. He is the author of four books and has published articles in leading and highly respected journals, including Management Science, Urban Studies, Human Relations, Economic Inquiry, and Journal of International Marketing, among many others. Moreover, he has published over 120 commentaries in major newspapers. He has been frequently interviewed by media and invited as guest speaker on various live TV and radio programmes.
Date de parution : 03-2013
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 06-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
gini; coeffi; cient; dispersion; log; coefficient; public; rental; housing; rising; West Germany; Income Dispersion; Log Income; Foreign Domestic Helpers; Public Rental Housing Units; Public Rental Housing; Rising Income Disparity; CSSA Scheme; Relative Poverty Concept; Tertiary Education; Theil Index; Atkinson Index; Household Income Distribution; Gini Coefficient; HKSAR; Income Inequality Problem; Public Housing Tenants; Private Housing Tenants; Lorenz Curve; Pre-handover Period; Data Set; Log Household Income; Chinese Immigrant Workers; CSSA; Permanent Residents