Foreign domestic helpers hiring and women's labor supply in Hong Kong

G He, X Wu - Chinese Sociological Review, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Based on the data from Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD), this article
investigates the effect of hiring foreign domestic helpers (FDH) on married women's labor …

Learning and socializing preferences in Hong Kong Chinese children

EE Chen, KH Corriveau, VKW Lai, SL Poon… - Child …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of social group information on the learning and socializing preferences of Hong
Kong Chinese children were examined. Specifically, the degree to which variability in racial …

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

AKL Cheung, L Lui - Current Sociology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Academics' job-related stress and institutional commitment in Hong Kong universities

H Horta, J Jung, L Zhang, GA Postiglione - Tertiary Education and …, 2019 - Springer
Recent developments in higher education have placed greater emphasis on performance
and accountability and raised concerns about increasing levels of stress among academics …

Gender inequalities in the association between demands of family and domestic life and health in Spanish workers

MM Arcas, AM Novoa, L Artazcoz - The European Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background: The aim of this study is to analyse gender inequalities in the relationship
between family demands and health in working and cohabiting population. Methods: A total …

The impacts of Covid-19 on foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong

WML May - Asian Journal of Business Ethics, 2021 - Springer
This paper is to inform the recent situations of work by the foreign domestic workers (FDWs)
in Hong Kong through the lens of Covid-19. Through the interviews with seven informants …

Domestic outsourcing in an ultra-low fertility context: employing live-in domestic help and fertility in Hong Kong

AKL Cheung, EHW Kim - Population Research and Policy Review, 2022 - Springer
The fertility rate in Hong Kong has been very low for decades. Because work–family conflict
is one of the major barriers for married couples in actualizing their fertility ideals, domestic …

Hiring domestic help in Hong Kong: The role of gender attitude and wives' income

AKL Cheung, L Lui - Journal of Family Issues, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Outsourcing domestic work: A double‐edged sword for marital relations among dual‐earner couples

AKL Cheung, L Lui - Family Relations, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines the relationship between domestic outsourcing, housework
evaluations, and marital conflict, while also comparing the effects of parents' informal help …

Re-examining the middle-class thesis: Class profiles of families employing migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong

AKL Cheung - Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
To what extent is employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs) a middle-class practice in
Hong Kong? I drew quantitative data from the Population Census and a representative …