The roles of human capital and social capital in the economic integration of new arrivals from Mainland China to Hong Kong

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kee-Lee Chou ◽  
Nelson W.S. Chow
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Mainland China

Intersecting social capital and Chinese culture

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miu Chung Yan ◽  
Ching Man Lam
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Young People ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Capital Humain ◽  
Capital Humano

English For youths to seek employment, social capital is as important as human capital. This article conceptually examines how guanxi, a form of social capital in Chinese culture, may be instrumental in helping young people access jobs. Suggestions of alternative services for helping unemployed youths in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong are offered. French Pour les jeunes à la recherche d’un emploi, le capital social est aussi important que le capital humain. Cet article examine comment la notion de guanxi, une forme de capital social dans la culture chinoise, peut aider concrètement les jeunes gens à avoir accès à un emploi. Il propose aussi des suggestions de services alternatifs pour aider les jeunes chômeurs en Chine, à Taïwan et à Hong-Kong. Spanish Para la juventud que busca empleo, el capital social es tan importante como el capital humano. Este artículo examina conceptualmente cómo guanxi, forma de capital social en la cultura China, puede ayudar instrumentalmente a la gente joven para acceder al trabajo. Se ofrecen recomendaciones de servicios alternativos para ayudar a la juventud desempleada en Mainland China, Taiwán y Hong Kong.

Economic Integration of Mainland China and the Hong Kong SAR

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kui-Wai Li ◽  
Tung Liu ◽  
Hoi Kuan Lam ◽  
Liang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Hong Kong Sar

Much Ado About Nothing? Do Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Benefit From Capital Accumulation?

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-840
Author(s):  
Yuying Tong ◽  
Niantao Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Foreign Domestic Workers

The accumulation of human and social capital plays a significant role in influencing migrants’ earnings and economic integration in the host society. Although the effects of foreign domestic workers’ bargaining power on their labor market outcome is constrained due to their unique migrant status, domestic workers may still strive to make use of various resources to secure “ideal” jobs as much as possible. Using a randomly selected unique data set collected in Hong Kong in 2017, this study examines whether foreign domestic workers’ human and social capitals are associated with their salary scale, working conditions, and work rights protection. We use education, previously held jobs, migration duration, and language proficiency to measure human capital, and friendship networks and church attendance to indicate social capital. We found that previously having middle-level job experience can reduce the likelihood of experiencing underpay and increase the likelihood of having overpay, taking the legal minimum salary as a reference. English language proficiency could also give them some leverage to access a better pay scale. Previous human capital accumulation is associated with having a private room in the employer’s home. It is also associated with better protection of work rights such as being less likely to experience a “no pay” month. For social capital, frequent participation in Sunday gathering with friends is mainly associated with rights protection. These findings indicate that although foreign domestic workers may be constrained in using their capital accumulation to improve their market value substantially, the capital accumulation can still give some leverage for them to bargain for a slightly improved salary, better working conditions, and protection of their rights.

scholarly journals Mapping the Cultural Identities of Youths in Hong Kong from a Social Capital Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Qiaobing Wu ◽  
Ying Ou ◽  
Lucy P. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Local Students

With its unique geopolitical status and multicultural setting, Hong Kong has harbored different youth groups generated from cross-border migration with mainland China who are tied to different cultural values and identifications. This study aims to investigate how social capital embedded in the family, school, and community influences the cultural identities across three groups of Chinese youths in the educational system: local students; cross-border students (born in Hong Kong, living in the neighbor city of mainland China but attending schools in Hong Kong on daily commute); and new immigrant students (born in mainland China but living in Hong Kong for less than seven years). Using data from a cross-sectional survey with 2180 fourth- to ninth-grade students in Hong Kong, the logistic regression results suggest that family and community social capital play significant roles in shaping the cultural identity of youths. Implications of the research findings are discussed.

Antitrust Enforcement and State Restraints at the Mainland China-Hong Kong Interface: The Importance of Bilateral Antitrust Co-operation

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelvin Hiu Fai KWOK
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Antitrust Enforcement ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Bilateral Cooperation ◽  
Careful Design

AbstractThis article argues that effective co-operation between the antitrust authorities of Mainland China and Hong Kong in antitrust enforcement and the removal of anti-competitive state restraints is essential to the promotion of market competition in, as well as free trade and economic integration between, the two regions. This entails the careful design and conclusion of a bilateral co-operation agreement embracing not only comity co-peration in antitrust enforcement, but also the adoption of a diplomatic solution of mutual self-restraint for the removal of anti-competitive state restraints at the Mainland China-Hong Kong interface. This would also require the co-operation of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong government authorities. Only with such bilateral cooperation can anti-competitive business practices and state restraints obstructing free trade and economic integration between the two regions be eliminated.

The Emergence of Greater China: The Economic Integration of Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. By Yung-Wing Sung. [Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xvi+236 pp. ISBN 0-333-62599-4.]

2005 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 429-431
Author(s):  
Y. Y. Kueh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
External Trade ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Cultural Affinity ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

This is a highly readable book about the emerging economic complex of “Greater China.” The author, based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is the foremost authority on the subject matter. The book, which culminates from well over a decade of painstaking research and publication, traces the process and pattern of economic integration among the Chinese trio – the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan – over the past two decades or so. The analysis is set against the broader background of Chinese economic reforms and opening to the West, as well as the changing political context in East Asia that has facilitated increased economic interaction in the region.The book starts with a broad description of the economic structure and relative economic strengths of the Chinese trio, and furnishes a useful conceptual framework for understanding the evolving economic relationships. Chapter two shows how FDI (foreign direct investment) from Hong Kong and Taiwan has triggered an accelerated process of integration with the mainland, and as a result led to the drastic expansion of China's external trade. Chapter three examines the particular characteristics of economic integration between Hong Kong and the mainland on the one hand, and between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait on the other hand. It reveals how cultural (affinity) and geographical (proximity) factors have played a role, and what policy readjustments have been made in the three constituent parts of the “China circle” to bring about a “new brand of ‘new-style’ economic integration,” which is unique in the global context of trade and investment liberalization.

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