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Managerial Stress In Hong Kong And Taiwan : A Comparative Study, Oi Ling Siu, Luo Lu, Cary L. Cooper

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The purpose of this study was to investigate occupational stress in managers in Hong Kong (N=280) and Taiwan (N=347) using the Occupational Stress Indicator-2 (OSI-2). The results showed that the reliabilities and predictive validity of the OSI-2 subscales were reasonably high in both samples. The logical relationships between job satisfaction, mental and physical well-being that were found in the two samples have provided support to the findings obtained in Western countries. The predictors for health effects were various and many in the two places. Further, there were gender differences in managerial stress in Hong Kong: female managers scored higher in …

Restructuring The Party/State Relations : China's Political Structural Reform In The 1980s, Yiu Chung Wong

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This paper deals with the political structural reform policies introduced or initiated by the reformists within the CCP starting in the late 1970s until the 4 June brutal crackdown in 1989. I shall discuss, first, the evolution of the notion of political structural reform in the first half of the 1980s. Second, I shall delineate the substance of the political reform policies and the implications of these policies. Third, the limitations of these reform measures will be analysed. The reform measures will be categorized into five areas that will become the focus of my study: a) democratizing the Party/state apparatus …

The Social Origin Of Alzheimer's Disease : A Path Analysis, William T. Liu, Shang Gong Sun

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In this short paper, our attempt is to describe the path-model that specifies relationships of a number of known health measures of Alzheimer' s Disease victims in a community population with such demographic characteristics as gender, age, and education attainment, or more specifically, literacy.

Are Union Jobs Worse? : Are Government Jobs Better?, John S. Heywood, W. S. Siebert, Xiangdong Wei

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The determinants of job satisfaction are estimated from difference equations using four waves of the British Household Panel Study. We find that those moving into union jobs report a drop in overall job satisfaction and those moving into the public sector an increase. This finding reduces the likelihood that cross-sectional results showing lower overall job satisfaction for union members and higher satisfaction for public sector workers reflect individual-specific effects (endogeneity). However, we find that cross-sectional results on satisfaction with the working environment and with pay do, indeed, reflect individual-specific effects. Our difference equations indicate that while union workers complain more …

Generational Dependency And Elderly Care : A Psychological Interpretation Of Cultural Norms And Exchange, Ying Yi Hong, William T. Liu

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ln spite of the complexity of such dynamic relationships in the caregiving system, the literature shows that dominant research paradigm has places elderly care in the framework of a simple, unqualified social exchange theory. The primary goal of this paper to critique research approach based on the social exchange theory. First, we wish to discuss how the exchange theory lies at the heart of the debate between the proponents and opponents of having family members as the primary care providers for elderly. We wish to review the basic assumptions that social exchange theory holds about caregiving relationships. Second, we suggest …

Living Arrangements And Elderly Care : The Case Of Hong Kong, Rance P. L. Lee, Jik-Joen Lee, Elena S. H. Yu, Shang-Gong Sun, William T. Liu

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Hong Kong has been a British Colony for more than one and a half centuries. The British has provided a legal-administrative framework under which the Chinese live and work (Chan and Lee, 1995), The Census showed that ninety-eight percent of the Territory's total population are ethnically Chinese. In 1991, nearly one half of HongKong's residents were immigrants from the Chinese Mainland and two thirds of the remaining were Hong Kong born off-springs of immigrants from the mainland. Although expatriotes from other countries are accountable for the remainder 2% of the population, a great majority of expatriotes are from overseas Chinese …

Filial Piety And Caregiving Burden In Shanghai, People's Republic Of China, William T. Liu, Elena S. H. Yu, Shang Gong Sun, Yin Kean

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Wage Compensation For Job Risks : The Case Of Hong Kong, W. S. Siebert, Xiangdong Wei

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The paper provides an estimate of wage compensation for fatal job risk in Hong 'Kong. It uses the 1991 Population Census of Hong Kong merged with job fatality data collected by the Labour Department. The result shows that there is a positive and significant compensating wage differential for job fatal risk for manual workers in Hong Kong. The estimated “statistical value of a life” is approximately HK$10.8m in 1990 prices (about US$1.4m). While this figure is somewhat lower than many estimates for developed countries, it is much higher than workers’ compensation for permanent total incapacity (maximum at HK$297,000 in 1996) …

Income Protection And The Elderly : An Examination Of Social Security Policy In Singapore, Keng Mun, William Lee

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選舉裂隙與九七後的香港政治動態 = Electoral Cleavages And The Post-1997 Hong Kong's Political Dynamics, Pang Kwong Li

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八十年代的香港，可說是充滿著政治改革的氣味。在一連串的改革中，以普選制度的引入，最為重要。普選制度的引入，不單止令整個社會日趨「政治化」和要求政治參與的訴求日漸提高，更深遠的影響是政治權力的重新分配，以及新的政治秩序和管治模式的浮現。因此，對冒升中的普選和政黨市場的了解是十分重要的。而本文的目的，正是提供和介紹一個研究香港普選市場的裂隙分析架構，以及基於此架構來討論「九七」後香港的政治動態。

The introduction of popular elections is one of the most important political reforms carried out in Hong Kong since the 1980s. It has not only politicized the whole society and heightened the aspiration of political participation, but also has the effect of power redistribution and thus paved the way for a new political order there. As a result, the study of the emerging electoral and party markets are timely and commendable. This paper sets out to provide a cleavage approach of analyzing the electoral market of Hong Kong and of discussing the political dynamics of the post-1997 Hong Kong

Positive Effects Of Modernization On Later Life, Wing Kin, Kenneth Law

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Early gerontological theories (e.g., role theory, subculture theory, disengagement theory, activity theory and modernization theory) on the study of the elderly used to concentrate on the discussion of the effects of various kinds of social change on individuals' later life adaptation. Modernization has conventionally been perceived as a bad dream for most elderly people. It is the modernization which deskills them, devalues their experiences, take away their authority, ... and finally leaves them in misery.

The validity and applicability of this simple relationship between modernization and the misery of later life as a result of the decline of social status …