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Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong.
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 chan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Economic growth and income distribution; 1.2 Economic restructuring and income disparity; 1.3 The expansion of higher education; 1.4 Public housing and its redistributing effects; 1.5 Increasing poverty and the working poor; 1.6 City of immigrants; 1.7 Data sets; 2. Economic growth and income distribution; 2.1 A brief literature review; 2.2 Sustained economic growth; 2.3 Gini Coefficient and other measures of income inequality; 2.4 Household income distribution.
- 2.5 Income distribution of the working populationAppendix: Decomposition of household income distribution; 3. Economic restructuring and rising income inequality; 3.1 Development of the various economic sectors; 3.2 Income distribution by industry; 3.3 Decomposition of rising income inequality by industry; 3.4 Income distribution by occupation; 3.5 Decomposition of rising income inequality by occupation; 4. The effects of the expansion of tertiary education; 4.1 The expansion of tertiary education; 4.2 A brief literature review; 4.3 Improving the quality of the labour force.
- 4.4 Returns to education and earnings premium for higher education4.5 Income distribution by education; 4.6 Decomposition of rising income inequality by education; 5. The redistributive effect of public housing policy; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Housing subsidies: an international perspective; 5.3 Empirical framework; 5.4 Data set; 5.5 Assessing the redistributive effect; 5.6 Sensitivity analysis of income redistribution; 5.7 Conclusions; 6. Poverty and the working poor; 6.1 What is poverty?; 6.2 Absolute poverty; 6.3 Relative poverty; 6.4 Rising income inequality equals rising poverty?
- 6.5 How do we define a poverty threshold in Hong Kong?6.6 The working poor; 7. Immigrants and natives; 7.1 A brief review of Chinese immigration to Hong Kong; 7.2 The right of abode in Hong Kong; 7.3 A brief review of the literature; 7.4 Population by place of birth; 7.5 Income distribution by place of birth; 7.6 Decomposition of rising income inequality by place of birth; 8. Summary and concluding remarks; 8.1 Summary of findings; 8.2 Directions for future research; Notes; References; Index.