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Unemployment and vacancy in the Hong Kong labour market

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  • Chung Yi Tse
  • Charles Ka Yui Leung
  • Weslie Yuk Fai Chan

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This paper combines unemployment and vacancy data to analyse the efficiency of the Hong Kong labour market for the period 1976 to 1997. It is confirmed that the negative relationship between unemployment and vacancy, commonly known as the Beveridge curve, applies to the Hong Kong labour market. There was an inward shift of the Beveridge curve around 1982, which implies falling match frictions since then. Systematic evidence is also found that Hong Kong has been close to full employment, for on average, around 80% of unemployment in the period was due to structural and frictional unemployment with only 20% attributable to cyclical unemployment.

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  • Chung Yi Tse & Charles Ka Yui Leung & Weslie Yuk Fai Chan, 2002. "Unemployment and vacancy in the Hong Kong labour market," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(4), pages 221-229.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:9:y:2002:i:4:p:221-229
    DOI: 10.1080/13504850110054959
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    1. Edward Teo & Shandre M. Thangavelu & Elizabeth Quah, 2005. "SINGAPORE'S BEVERIDGE CURVE: A Comparative Study of the Unemployment and Vacancy Relationship for Selected East Asian Countries," SCAPE Policy Research Working Paper Series 0508, National University of Singapore, Department of Economics, SCAPE.
    2. Daisy J. Huang & Charles Ka Yui Leung & Chung-Yi Tse, 2018. "What Accounts for the Differences in Rent-Price Ratio and Turnover Rate? A Search-and-Matching Approach," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 57(3), pages 431-475, October.
    3. Bin Wang & Yum K. Kwan, 2021. "Constructing the job‐finding rate and separation rate of Hong Kong labour market," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(3), pages 303-311, August.
    4. Shandre M. Thangavelu & Hu Guangzhou, 2006. "Lessons from "benchmark" countries : Korea & Ireland," Labor Economics Working Papers 21820, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
    5. Shandre M. Thangavelu & Hu Guangzhou, 2006. "Lessons from "benchmark" countries : Korea & Ireland," Labor Economics Working Papers 21820, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.

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