1. Introduction -- 2. Economic growth and income distribution -- 3. Economic restructuring and rising income inequality -- 4. The effects of the expansion of tertiary education -- 5. The redistributive effect of public housing policy -- 6. Poverty and the working poor -- 7. Immigrants and...

Public housing programmes in Hong Kong affect half of the population directly and the other half indirectly. This paper assesses the redistributive effect of public rental housing on income distribution. It uses a subsidised-to-market rent ratio method and an imputed rent method to convert...

Machine learning methods are powerful tools for data mining with large noisy databases and give researchers the opportunity to gain new insights into consumer behavior and to improve the performance of marketing operations. To model consumer responses to direct marketing, this study proposes...

The rationing of public housing reduces the efficiency of the match between public housing units and their occupants, as competing users cannot effectively convey their preferences through a price mechanism. This study investigates the costs of public housing from the perspective of the...