Globalization and Hong Kong's labour market: the deregulation paradox

Ng Sek Hong and Chris Rowley

Asia Pacific Business Review, 2000, vol. 6, issue 3-4, 174-192

Abstract: The globalization of business has affected Hong Kong, giving rise to important changes in its labour market and with impacts on workers and labour organizations. This has been felt in the migration of manufacturing plants to China in combination with labour market deregulation via the government's guest worker policy. We examine the institutional implications of liberalizing the previous ban on the admission of guest workers. While this seeming reversal was tantamount to deregulation, it also produced regulation via a new body of norms and rules governing guest labour which were, paradoxically, restrictive and disabling for the affected parties.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1080/13602380012331288522

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