With governments redistributing more responsibilities unto citizens, individuals have an
increasing need for financial resources acting as a buffer against life's setbacks and …

Eight consumption-based asset pricing models are developed, estimated and compared
their capacities in accounting for the asset markets in Hong Kong. Results based on …

Public policies can be effective in raising people's social inclusion as intended only
reasonably through their implementation. With respect to the implementation perspective …

Background: Global and Iranian statistics indicate a rise in the newly emerging phenomenon
of voluntary childlessness as a permanent status among couples. Childlessness is one of …

This paper uses the concept of risk to frame an analysis of welfare reforms and politics in
Hong Kong following the financial crisis. Recently, the government and the public have been …

The COVID-19 pandemic engenders unemployment risks globally and locally. Reflectively
engaging in Beck's risk society debates, this paper critically reviews the discursive effects of …

Research on East Asian social policy has gained significance since the 1990s. Inspired by
the typology approach distinguishing welfare regimes (Esping-Andersen, 1990), East Asian …

China's welfare system has been a typical 'residual welfare regime', but the economic reform
and market-oriented transformations in recent decades have weakened the original well …

With the government increasingly redistributing responsibility to citizens, individuals require
resources to take self-protective measures and to recuperate themselves from setbacks with …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the case of Hong Kong to assess the
equalisation and individualization claim of the risk society approach to studying experience …