Work and self-reliance are the core values of neo-liberalist Hong Kong society. When the
economy was booming, finding a job was not an issue. The real challenges began in the …

This qualitative study explores the welfare recipients' experiences of and attitudes toward
the welfare benefit system in Hong Kong. A sample of 19 welfare recipients from six main …

Work First Versus Human Capital Development in Employability Programs | The Oxford
Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement …

In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, the Hong Kong government introduced welfare
reforms to ease the pressure from fiscal challenges and swelling welfare rolls; at the same …

The institutional approach to job training emphasizes the ways institutional factors affect
employees' chances of receiving job training from employers. Most empirical studies that …

Older handbooks on labour market policy (eg Schmid et al., 1996) do not feature chapters
on activation. This is unsurprising as the topic hardly existed in social and labour market …

Workfare programs (WPs) in low-and middle-income countries have become a primary
instrument to fight poverty associated with temporary economic shocks or to create a …

Background to the welfare-to-work programme Ten years after the Asian financial crisis
(1997), its adverse impacts are still haunting many governments. They still are uncertain …

Consideration of welfare regimes in Hong Kong has generally neglected gender and care
work issues, focusing instead on welfare ideologies relating to production and the market …

Welfare reforms in the 1990s have shifted governments around the world towards financial
assistance conditional on work. While large-scale rigorous research on welfare-to-work …