Raymond K H Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond K H Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond K H |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN R K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Labor Segmentation and Dualisation in Hong Kong
With a strong adherence to liberalism, the labor market in Hong Kong is character-ized by a low level of external regulation and an emphasis on self-adaptation as coping. The government mainly attend to the quality of manpower supplied meet-ing the market need, as well as peaceful industrial relations. Segmentation of labor is a natural result of this lowly regulated liberal market. Benefited from a relatively stable economy, unemployment in the …
Dead End of the Rainbow: How Environmental and Spatial Factors Create a Necropolis for Gay Sex Workers in China
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia
New Life Courses, Social Risks and Social Policy in East Asia
Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets, new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing participation of women in the labour market, and the many problems resulting from very much longer human life expectancy. Whereas once social policy had to be in step with a standardised, relatively stable …
Do Part-Time Jobs Mitigate Workers' Work-Family Conflict and Enhance Wellbeing? New Evidence from Four East-Asian Societies
The shifting boundary between work and welfare – a review of active labour market policies in Hong Kong
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 late 1990s due to successive economic crises which led to the adoption of active labour market policies. While social security protection has been provided for the unemployed, workfare and new programmes to encourage employment have been introduced, forming a link between pa…
Competence Trust, Reflexivity and Risk Management in Hong Kong
Trust is an essential element of governance. Lack of trust in government engenders doubts regarding its competence, weakens its legitimacy, and creates difficulties in the process of governing. As suggested, declining trust was related to reflexivity. This article, based on a Hong Kong study, confirms that a lack of competence trust in the government's ability to manage work-related risks correlated with reflexivity. Self-identified social status…
Care regimes and responses: East Asian experiences compared
The five Asian societies reviewed in this special issue have exhibited similar demographic trends, which have, in turn, presented similar challenges to their care systems. Various care regimes and arrangements have been initiated to tackle these recent challenges. Care regimes rely on care services from different sectors. While the family retains its significant role in all these societies, its care burden has been shared by other sectors, especi…
Risk discourse and politics: Restructuring welfare in Hong Kong
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 increasingly exposed to, and aware of, risk. The old welfare policies were considered ineffective in coping with new risks and were gradually replaced by new strategies, formulated in accordance with risk-led welfare discourse. The new risks and the risk management …
Self-help groups for men in Hong Kong: Experiences and prospects
English This article reports the findings of the first survey of men’s self-help groups in Hong Kong. Group members and social workers felt that these contributed significantly to improvements in interpersonal skills and social networking, but also that men’s services have been marginalized due to lack of societal support and a proper understanding of men’s needs. French Cet article présente le rapport des résultats de la première enquête des gro…
Risk, Reflexivity and Sub-politics: Environmental Politics in Hong Kong
Increasing attention has been drawn to the risk posed by air pollution, a risk that has wide-ranging effects (on the environment, health, the economy, culture, urban design and politics). New environmental movements and political agendas have emerged in the past 10 years. A growing number of social groups have been formed to express their concerns and challenge established laws and rules. This paper will borrow Ulrich Beck's concepts of risk, ref…
Risk and its Management in Post‐Financial Crisis Hong Kong
In the 1970s and up until the financial crisis occurred in the late 1990s, Hong Kong prospered in a relatively stable social, economic and political context. Since the financial crisis, however, its population has been increasingly exposed to risk: there has been job uncertainty and decreasing capacity for self‐reliance, leading to a growing reliance on public welfare and on families at a time when both are under pressure. The old welfare policie…
Community economic development: Applications and limitations in Hong Kong
English Community economic development has attracted increasing attention in Hong Kong as a strategy for tackling economic problems. This article analyzes its applications and limitations in Hong Kong. Such initiatives are thriving though the income generated is small. Appropriate business strategies, capacity building, and strong community links are crucial for its success. French L'économie sociale est une avenue de plus en plus considérée à Ho…
An Overview: Themed Section on Globalisation and Welfare Systems in Asia
The latest period of expansion in the international economy has been characterised by the liberalisation of capital movements, the deregulation of major financial markets and the spread of neo-liberal beliefs in the merits of open and competitive trade, the disadvantages of big government and protectionist policies (Hirst, 1997). The rapid advancement of information and communication technology and the growth of knowledge-based economy have led t…
Some Useful Sources
Those who would like to explore more on the issue, apart from looking at the references of each article, can find more information and analysis from these items supplied by authors of the articles, which are arranged by four parts: general, general-Asia, country-specific and statistics
Globalisation, Unemployment and the Welfare Regime in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has a liberal economy, and its welfare regime relies, first, on income through employment and, second, on support provided by family and community members. Although the government has strategically invested in certain social services, generally speaking, its aid is intended to be a secondary, if not the last resort. This system was effective when Hong Kong benefited from globalisation, enjoyed virtually full employment in the decades pr…
Social capital and its relevance to the Japanese‐model welfare society
Current debates and initiatives relating to the welfare regime in Japan focus on the contributions of informal and community networks. In this article, we adopt the concept of social capital, which is assessed according to three categories – structural social capital, experiential individual social capital and anticipatory individual social capital – in order to evaluate the assumptions and strengths of community in Japan. The findings are based …
Chinese Occupational Welfare in Market Transition
List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface A Note on the Romanization of Chinese Abbreviations The Nature of Chinese Occupational Welfare Research Method The Origins of Chinese Occupational Welfare The Changing Contexts of Chinese Occupational Welfare Reshaping Dependence Reshaping the Danwei Welfare Economy Redistributing Risks and Responsibilities Conclusion: Towards a Chinese Model of Welfare Pluralism Notes Appendix Bibliography Index
Unemployment and Psychological Health among Hong Kong Chinese Women
The impact of unemployment on psychological health, indexed by the General Health Questionnaire, was studied in 86 unemployed and 79 employed Chinese women in Hong Kong. As with findings reported in the West, the present results showed that the unemployed participants were more disturbed than their steadily employed peers. In addition, the prevalence rate of disturbance (54%) observed in the present sample of unemployed women is comparatively hig…
Globalisation, Unemployment and the Welfare Regime in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has a liberal economy, and its welfare regime relies, first, on income through employment and, second, on support provided by family and community members. Although the government has strategically invested in certain social services, generally speaking, its aid is intended to be a secondary, if not the last resort. This system was effective when Hong Kong benefited from globalisation, enjoyed virtually full employment in the decades pr…
Do Part-Time Jobs Mitigate Workers' Work-Family Conflict and Enhance Wellbeing? New Evidence from Four East-Asian Societies
Risk and its Management in Post‐Financial Crisis Hong Kong
In the 1970s and up until the financial crisis occurred in the late 1990s, Hong Kong prospered in a relatively stable social, economic and political context. Since the financial crisis, however, its population has been increasingly exposed to risk: there has been job uncertainty and decreasing capacity for self‐reliance, leading to a growing reliance on public welfare and on families at a time when both are under pressure. The old welfare policie…
Care regimes and responses: East Asian experiences compared
The five Asian societies reviewed in this special issue have exhibited similar demographic trends, which have, in turn, presented similar challenges to their care systems. Various care regimes and arrangements have been initiated to tackle these recent challenges. Care regimes rely on care services from different sectors. While the family retains its significant role in all these societies, its care burden has been shared by other sectors, especi…
Dead End of the Rainbow: How Environmental and Spatial Factors Create a Necropolis for Gay Sex Workers in China
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
Risk discourse and politics: Restructuring welfare in Hong Kong
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 increasingly exposed to, and aware of, risk. The old welfare policies were considered ineffective in coping with new risks and were gradually replaced by new strategies, formulated in accordance with risk-led welfare discourse. The new risks and the risk management …
Risk, Reflexivity and Sub-politics: Environmental Politics in Hong Kong
Increasing attention has been drawn to the risk posed by air pollution, a risk that has wide-ranging effects (on the environment, health, the economy, culture, urban design and politics). New environmental movements and political agendas have emerged in the past 10 years. A growing number of social groups have been formed to express their concerns and challenge established laws and rules. This paper will borrow Ulrich Beck's concepts of risk, ref…
Social capital and its relevance to the Japanese‐model welfare society
Current debates and initiatives relating to the welfare regime in Japan focus on the contributions of informal and community networks. In this article, we adopt the concept of social capital, which is assessed according to three categories – structural social capital, experiential individual social capital and anticipatory individual social capital – in order to evaluate the assumptions and strengths of community in Japan. The findings are based …
Self-help groups for men in Hong Kong: Experiences and prospects
English This article reports the findings of the first survey of men’s self-help groups in Hong Kong. Group members and social workers felt that these contributed significantly to improvements in interpersonal skills and social networking, but also that men’s services have been marginalized due to lack of societal support and a proper understanding of men’s needs. French Cet article présente le rapport des résultats de la première enquête des gro…
Community economic development: Applications and limitations in Hong Kong
English Community economic development has attracted increasing attention in Hong Kong as a strategy for tackling economic problems. This article analyzes its applications and limitations in Hong Kong. Such initiatives are thriving though the income generated is small. Appropriate business strategies, capacity building, and strong community links are crucial for its success. French L'économie sociale est une avenue de plus en plus considérée à Ho…
Unemployment and Psychological Health among Hong Kong Chinese Women
The impact of unemployment on psychological health, indexed by the General Health Questionnaire, was studied in 86 unemployed and 79 employed Chinese women in Hong Kong. As with findings reported in the West, the present results showed that the unemployed participants were more disturbed than their steadily employed peers. In addition, the prevalence rate of disturbance (54%) observed in the present sample of unemployed women is comparatively hig…
Chinese Occupational Welfare in Market Transition
List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface A Note on the Romanization of Chinese Abbreviations The Nature of Chinese Occupational Welfare Research Method The Origins of Chinese Occupational Welfare The Changing Contexts of Chinese Occupational Welfare Reshaping Dependence Reshaping the Danwei Welfare Economy Redistributing Risks and Responsibilities Conclusion: Towards a Chinese Model of Welfare Pluralism Notes Appendix Bibliography Index
An Overview: Themed Section on Globalisation and Welfare Systems in Asia
The latest period of expansion in the international economy has been characterised by the liberalisation of capital movements, the deregulation of major financial markets and the spread of neo-liberal beliefs in the merits of open and competitive trade, the disadvantages of big government and protectionist policies (Hirst, 1997). The rapid advancement of information and communication technology and the growth of knowledge-based economy have led t…
Some Useful Sources
Those who would like to explore more on the issue, apart from looking at the references of each article, can find more information and analysis from these items supplied by authors of the articles, which are arranged by four parts: general, general-Asia, country-specific and statistics
Globalisation, Unemployment and the Welfare Regime in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has a liberal economy, and its welfare regime relies, first, on income through employment and, second, on support provided by family and community members. Although the government has strategically invested in certain social services, generally speaking, its aid is intended to be a secondary, if not the last resort. This system was effective when Hong Kong benefited from globalisation, enjoyed virtually full employment in the decades pr…
Social capital and its relevance to the Japanese‐model welfare society
Current debates and initiatives relating to the welfare regime in Japan focus on the contributions of informal and community networks. In this article, we adopt the concept of social capital, which is assessed according to three categories – structural social capital, experiential individual social capital and anticipatory individual social capital – in order to evaluate the assumptions and strengths of community in Japan. The findings are based …
Risk and its Management in Post‐Financial Crisis Hong Kong
In the 1970s and up until the financial crisis occurred in the late 1990s, Hong Kong prospered in a relatively stable social, economic and political context. Since the financial crisis, however, its population has been increasingly exposed to risk: there has been job uncertainty and decreasing capacity for self‐reliance, leading to a growing reliance on public welfare and on families at a time when both are under pressure. The old welfare policie…
Community economic development: Applications and limitations in Hong Kong
English Community economic development has attracted increasing attention in Hong Kong as a strategy for tackling economic problems. This article analyzes its applications and limitations in Hong Kong. Such initiatives are thriving though the income generated is small. Appropriate business strategies, capacity building, and strong community links are crucial for its success. French L'économie sociale est une avenue de plus en plus considérée à Ho…
Risk, Reflexivity and Sub-politics: Environmental Politics in Hong Kong
Increasing attention has been drawn to the risk posed by air pollution, a risk that has wide-ranging effects (on the environment, health, the economy, culture, urban design and politics). New environmental movements and political agendas have emerged in the past 10 years. A growing number of social groups have been formed to express their concerns and challenge established laws and rules. This paper will borrow Ulrich Beck's concepts of risk, ref…
Risk discourse and politics: Restructuring welfare in Hong Kong
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 increasingly exposed to, and aware of, risk. The old welfare policies were considered ineffective in coping with new risks and were gradually replaced by new strategies, formulated in accordance with risk-led welfare discourse. The new risks and the risk management …
Self-help groups for men in Hong Kong: Experiences and prospects
English This article reports the findings of the first survey of men’s self-help groups in Hong Kong. Group members and social workers felt that these contributed significantly to improvements in interpersonal skills and social networking, but also that men’s services have been marginalized due to lack of societal support and a proper understanding of men’s needs. French Cet article présente le rapport des résultats de la première enquête des gro…
Care regimes and responses: East Asian experiences compared
The five Asian societies reviewed in this special issue have exhibited similar demographic trends, which have, in turn, presented similar challenges to their care systems. Various care regimes and arrangements have been initiated to tackle these recent challenges. Care regimes rely on care services from different sectors. While the family retains its significant role in all these societies, its care burden has been shared by other sectors, especi…
Competence Trust, Reflexivity and Risk Management in Hong Kong
Trust is an essential element of governance. Lack of trust in government engenders doubts regarding its competence, weakens its legitimacy, and creates difficulties in the process of governing. As suggested, declining trust was related to reflexivity. This article, based on a Hong Kong study, confirms that a lack of competence trust in the government's ability to manage work-related risks correlated with reflexivity. Self-identified social status…
The shifting boundary between work and welfare – a review of active labour market policies in Hong Kong
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 late 1990s due to successive economic crises which led to the adoption of active labour market policies. While social security protection has been provided for the unemployed, workfare and new programmes to encourage employment have been introduced, forming a link between pa…
New Life Courses, Social Risks and Social Policy in East Asia
Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. These include insecure employment resulting from ever more volatile labour markets, new family and gender relationships resulting from the growing participation of women in the labour market, and the many problems resulting from very much longer human life expectancy. Whereas once social policy had to be in step with a standardised, relatively stable …
Do Part-Time Jobs Mitigate Workers' Work-Family Conflict and Enhance Wellbeing? New Evidence from Four East-Asian Societies
Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia
Labor Segmentation and Dualisation in Hong Kong
With a strong adherence to liberalism, the labor market in Hong Kong is character-ized by a low level of external regulation and an emphasis on self-adaptation as coping. The government mainly attend to the quality of manpower supplied meet-ing the market need, as well as peaceful industrial relations. Segmentation of labor is a natural result of this lowly regulated liberal market. Benefited from a relatively stable economy, unemployment in the …
Dead End of the Rainbow: How Environmental and Spatial Factors Create a Necropolis for Gay Sex Workers in China
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Market economy (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Welfare (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works)