Hiring Domestic Help in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ka-Lok Cheung ◽  
Lake Lui
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Gender Attitude ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Domestic Help ◽  
Household Survey Data ◽  
Domestic Outsourcing

The associating factors of hiring domestic help have not been thoroughly studied in a non-Western context. Using household survey data ( N = 974), this article investigates the interactive role of gender attitude and women’s income on the decision to hire domestic help in Hong Kong. Some previous studies fall short in finding a significant association between respondents’ gender attitudes and the hiring of domestic help, while wives’ income is a consistent factor in the hiring of domestic help across a number of studies. In this study, we found that husbands’ traditional gender attitudes and wives’ high income sharply increase the likelihood of hiring domestic help. However, their associations with the hiring of domestic help are conditional on each other. In addition to women’s socioeconomic status, ideational factors should be taken into account in projecting local demand for domestic help and in understanding the increasing trend of domestic outsourcing.

Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110127
Author(s):  
Adam Ka-Lok Cheung ◽  
Lake Lui
Keyword(s):  
Household Survey ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Household Chores ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Domestic Help ◽  
Domestic Outsourcing ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Intensive Parenting

This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. In the first stage, regression models are used to analyze data from a representative household survey of working parents ( N = 791). Regression results show that working parents who hire live-in domestic help spent less time in housework. Yet, the reduction in housework time was partially offset by the managing tasks brought about by the use of live-in help. Working parents with live-in helpers also spent significantly more time on childcare than did working parents without such help. To interpret the regression results, the study draws on qualitative data from in-depth interviews ( N = 20) to unpack the meaning of hiring help and its relationship with the notion and practices of parenting. The findings highlight that the use of live-in domestic help is a specialization strategy to strive for perfection in parenting for parents who juggle work, childcare and household chores. By outsourcing household chores and more routinized childcare tasks to the helpers, working parents, especially mothers, can focus on emotional bonding and tasks conducive to the development of their children.

生活困擾: 試論九七前後香港的貧窮問題

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
宏泰 鄭 ◽  
紹倫 黃
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
The Past ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Household Survey Data ◽  
The Government ◽  
Working Situation

本文嘗試引用自1988至2001年期間所進行的全港性社會指標調查資料，分析香港的貧窮問題。從數據上看，我們發現香港社會已明顯地出現“貧者愈貧”的現象。若受訪者是來自低教育、低收入以至低技術階層的話，他們陷入貧窮困局的機會便愈大。受訪的貧窮者當中對家庭、個人以至工作各方面的不滿情緒，往往較那些生活條件充裕者大；至於對經濟環境、就業和政府管治方面的怨憤，也較為強烈。以上各種趨勢，不但十分突顯，而且有愈來愈嚴重的傾向，值得當局小心處理。 With reference to the territory-wide household survey data that was obtained from 1988 to 2001, this paper tries to analyze the poverty problem in Hong Kong before and after the hand-over. Our data clearly shows that in the past one and a half decades, the poverty problem has become worst. In comparison with the well-off families, respondents who came from the poorer families have become more dissatisfied with the living environment, the working situation, economic prospectus as well as the administration of the government. If the government would not take effective action to solve this worsening poverty problem, the foundation of the territory's social stability will be threatened.

Outsourcing for How Long? Factors and Duration of Employing Foreign Live-in Domestic Helpers

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110419
Author(s):  
Adam K. L. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
History Data ◽  
Life History Data ◽  
Domestic Help

A remarkable rise in outsourcing domestic labor has been well documented, but the scope of the existing studies is limited. This study aims at investigating the factors and duration of using live-in domestic help in Hong Kong. The study also aims at disentangling the cross-sectional patterns in using paid domestic help into two different patterns: differential risks in the transition into the practice and the differential risks in the transition out from the practice. This study analyzes retrospective life-history data from a representative household survey ( N = 2003). Discrete-time logit models were employed. The results show that employing live-in helpers is a stable practice that could last for more than a decade. Yet, the factors for using and ending the practice are different. The results show that the flexible outsourcing framework could satisfactorily explain the families employing live-in helpers but is less applicable in explaining the duration of the practice.

scholarly journals Attempting to disentangle the relationship between impulsivity and longitudinal self-harm: Epidemiological analysis of UK household survey data

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angharad N de Cates ◽  
Gennaro Catone ◽  
Paul Bebbington ◽  
Matthew R Broome
Keyword(s):  
Household Survey ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Epidemiological Analysis ◽  
Mood Instability ◽  
Adult Psychiatry ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Household Survey Data ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Impulsivity may be an important risk factor in terms of future self-harm. However, the extent of this, whether it may relate to self-harm that is new in onset and/or repetition of self-harm, and the detail of any interaction with mood instability (MI) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) requires detailed examination. Aims: We used the 2000 Adult Psychiatry Morbidity Survey and an 18-month follow-up data to test hypotheses relating to the role of impulsivity, CSA and MI in the inception and persistence of self-harm. Methods: We assessed associations of impulsivity with (1) suicidal self-harm (SSH) and (2) non-SSH (NSSH) at baseline and follow-up, controlling for confounders including MI. Finally, we tested whether impulsivity mediated the relationship between CSA and self-harm. Results: A total of 8,580 respondents were assessed at baseline and 2,406 at follow-up as planned. Impulsivity significantly predicted emergence of new NSSH at 18-month follow-up even after adjustment for MI and other confounders. Impulsivity did not significantly predict repetition of NSSH, or repetition or new inception of SSH, even before inclusion of MI in the model. However, the absolute numbers involved were small. Cross-sectionally, impulsivity was a stronger mediator of the link between CSA and SSH (13.1%) than that between CSA and NSSH (4.8%). Conclusion: Impulsivity may increase the risk of future development of NSSH independently of MI, which is clinically important for risk assessment. The involvement of impulsivity in the repetition of self-harm generally appears less certain. However, impulsivity may have a role in SSH in the context of previous CSA.

scholarly journals Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Niehaus ◽  
Sandip Sukhtankar
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Efficiency Wages ◽  
Wage Increase ◽  
Household Survey Data ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Employment Guarantee Scheme ◽  
Total Impact

Theoretical work on disciplining corrupt agents has emphasized the role of expected future rents—for example, efficiency wages. Yet taken seriously this approach implies that illicit future rents should also deter corruption. We study this “golden goose” effect in the context of a statutory wage increase in India's employment guarantee scheme, comparing official microrecords to original household survey data to measure corruption. We estimate large golden goose effects that reduced the total impact of the wage increase on theft by roughly 64 percent. In short, rent expectations matter. (JEL D73, D82, H83, J41, K42, O17, O21)

scholarly journals Determinants of Capital Formation of Smallholder Farmers in Kyrgyzstan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dastan Aseinov ◽  
Burulcha Sulaimanova ◽  
Kamalbek Karymshakov
Keyword(s):  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Head Of Household ◽  
Household Survey Data ◽  
Physical Assets

Capital formation is crucial to increase output volume and quality in agricultural production activity of households. This study examines factors affecting capital formation of smallholder farmers in Kyrgyzstan ranging from household characteristics to location of farmers. Along with other traditional potential constraints that may have impact on capital formation, we examine the role of social network activities. These expenditures on customs and traditions may have both negative and positive effects on the capital formation in agriculture. Our empirical analysis is based on the cross-sectional household survey data for 2013. According to our findings, the amount of physical assets of households in Kyrgyzstan mainly depends on the share of expenses on customs and traditions, the total income, gender differences and the ethnicity of the head of household.

scholarly journals Is Consumption Pattern Homogeneous in Pakistan? Evidence from PSLM 2007-08.

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4II) ◽  
pp. 629-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashfaque H. Khan ◽  
Umer Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Household Survey ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
Consumption Expenditures ◽  
Consumption Behaviour ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Household Survey Data

This study has analysed consumption behaviour of households across the four provinces of Pakistan using recent household survey data of 2007-08. It is found that the consumption patterns are not entirely homogeneous across all 4 provinces and also diverge across the urban-rural sectors within each province. The study has also examined the role of remittances in determining the level and distribution of household consumption expenditures, across all four provinces, by comparing the consumption behaviour of those households who received remittances versus those who did not. We found that households receiving remittances spent proportionately more on education in all provinces except Balochistan; while they spent proportionately less on food and drinks and transport and communication. In terms of the other expenditure categories, differential impact of remittances is observed across provinces.

scholarly journals Digital Health Literacy and Health-Related Well-Being Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Socioeconomic Status Among University Students in Hong Kong and Macao

2021 ◽  
pp. 101053952110122
Author(s):  
Padmore Adusei Amoah ◽  
Angela Y. M. Leung ◽  
Laurence Lloyd Parial ◽  
Angela Chiu Yin Poon ◽  
Henry Hoi-Yee Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
University Students ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Relationship

The current study examined the moderating role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the association between digital health literacy (DHL) and psychological well-being of 801 university students in Hong Kong and Macao amid the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Results showed that DHL and SES were positively associated with psychological well-being. Surprisingly, SES negatively modified the relationship between DHL and psychological well-being. We argue that while attempts are being made to improve the well-being through DHL among students and others alike, a one-size-fits-all approach would not suffice because of diversity in students’ socioeconomic backgrounds.

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