Widening income distribution in post-handover Hong Kong / / Hon-Kwong Lui

• Autore: Lui Hon-Kwong
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.2095125
• Soggetto topico: Income distribution - China - Hong Kong; Economic development - China - Hong Kong
• Soggetto geografico: Hong Kong (China) Economic conditions 21st century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Widening income distribution in post-handover Hong Kong
• ISBN: 1-134-10437-5; 0-203-36615-8; 1-299-38670-9; 1-134-10430-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779417003321
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