Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Hong Kong
Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Hong Kong

Author: Kit-Chun Lam

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Intergenerational educational mobility is characterized in two ways, the percentage of children who have more schooling than their parents, and the relative probability of the children attending university across their parents' schooling levels. We find that from 1991 to 2011, following a major expansion in higher education in Hong Kong, there has been considerable intergenerational educational mobility. Immigrant children are very upward mobile; their percentage of upward mobility has caught up with that of the children of the Hong Kong born parents. Hong Kong born children of immigrant parents, the second generation immigrants, are also more mobile than the children of Hong Kong born parents. In terms of access to university education, there is also considerable intergenerational education mobility. Even though children from better educated families continue to have higher probability of university attendance than children from less educated families, immigrant children again have higher mobility than Hong Kong born children.

Intergenerational Income Mobility in China
Intergenerational Income Mobility in China

Author: Yuna Hou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 100047366X

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Intergenerational income mobility is of great societal importance due to its relevance to equal socio-economic opportunity and future economic efficiency. In her book Dr Hou explores the potential role of education policy in reducing intergenerational transmission of poverty and promoting intergenerational income mobility in China. Her research investigates the extent to which intergenerational income persists in China, the mechanisms behind intergenerational inequality, and premises for policy intervention. The interaction between families, labour markets, and public policies that structure a child’s opportunities and determine the extent to which income is related to family background are discussed in detail. The book comprises of three separate empirical studies examining the relationship between parents’ income and the long-term welfare of their children for two birth cohorts; the role education plays in the intergenerational income relationship; and possible policy intervention channels to facilitate intergenerational income mobility. The lessons learnt from the empirical studies in this book offer the basis for a discussion of current educational policies and provide guidance for developing more appropriate public policies to promote intergenerational income mobility in China in the future. This book contributes to the international discussion by providing evidence in Chinese context, and also provides guidance for policymakers attempting to develop more appropriate public policies to promote intergenerational income mobility in China.

Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong
Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong

Author: Yue Chim Richard Wong

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9888390678

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When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in shrinking the inequality gap. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy. He recommends more investment in education, focusing on early education and immigration policy reforms to attract highly educated and skilled people to join the workforce. In analyzing what causes inequality, this book ties disparate issues together into a coherent framework, such as Hong Kong’s aging population, lack of investment in human capital, and family breakdowns. Rising divorce rates among low-income households have worsened the housing shortage, driving rents and property prices upwards. Housing problems have created a bigger gap between those who own housing and have the ability to invest in their children’s human capital and those who cannot, thus adversely impacting intergenerational upward mobility. This is the third of Richard Wong’s collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy and Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013 and 2015 respectively, discuss growing economic and social contradictions in Hong Kong and current housing problems and their solutions.

Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong

Author: Pak-Wai Liu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2022-02-25

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1527579301

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Of interest to readers and policymakers in countries that receive migrants through family reunion and manpower admission schemes from low-income countries and strive to assimilate them into their communities, this book presents a case study of the integration of migrants from Mainland China in Hong Kong. It shows that early optimism of quick economic assimilation has given way to a more realistic view of a long, arduous process extending to the second generation. While the case of Hong Kong is unique in a number of ways, the book serves as a useful policy reference for other countries that attempt to balance the intake of migrants for family reunion with the admission of high-quality migrants who possess skills in demand in the economy.

The Impact of Higher Education Expansion on Intergenerational Mobility
The Impact of Higher Education Expansion on Intergenerational Mobility

Author: Hai Zhong

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The persistent correlations between parents and children's outcomes have long been investigated. From a policy perspective, it is important to understand the underlying causes of those correlations. Educational policy changes may have significant impacts on intergenerational mobility. The last several decades have witnessed a remarkable expansion of higher education around the world. In this paper, we examine the effect of higher education expansion on intergenerational mobility in China. We find that the higher education expansion in China has weakened the advantage of cadres' children in higher education participation, and has strengthened the intergenerational educational correlation. One explanation for these results might be that, along with the process of economic reform started in 1979, the cadre selection mechanism has placed more and more weight on candidate's education and abilities.