Research
Output (Past Five Years)
Journal
Articles:
(1) “Employer
Size-Wage Effects: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Survey Data in the
UK”, 36(3):185-193, February 2004, Applied Economics. (with Clive
Belfield)
(2) “Education and the
Signalling Hypothesis: Evidence from a Highly Competitive Labor Market”, Education
Economics, 12(1):1-16, April 2004. (with John Heywood)
(3) “The Effect of Trade on Wage Inequality: the Hong Kong
Case”, Journal of International Economics, 67:pp241-257, September
2005. (with Lok-Sang Ho and Wai-Chun Wong)
(4)
“Performance-related Pay Schemes and Job Satisfaction”, Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(4), September 2006. (with
John Heywood).
(5) “The Law of One Price: Evidence from the Transitional
Economy of China”, Review of
Economics and Statistics, 88(4): 682-97, November 2006. (with Simon Fan)
(6) “The Implicit
Market for Family Friendly Work Practices”, Oxford
Economic Papers, 59:275-300, 2007. (with John Heywood and Stan Siebert).
(7) “Wage Compensation
for Job-Related Illness in the UK”, Journal
of Risk and Uncertainty, 34: 85-98, 2007.
(8) “Taxation and the Economy in Late Eleventh-century England: Reviving the Domesday Regression Debate”, Anglo-Norman Studies 29: 214-227, 2007. (with Andrew Wareham)
(9) “Teamwork,
Monitoring, Absence and Productivity”, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization 68(3-4): 676-90, December 2008. (with
John Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn)
(10) “Competitiveness
of the Hong Kong Economy”, China Economic
Review 20(3)：573-586，September 2009. (with Hongyi Li and
Danyang Xu).
(11) “Work-Life
Balance: Promises Made and Promises Kept”, forthcoming in International Journal of Human Resources Management. (with John
Heywood and Stan Siebert)
(12) “Why Do Firms Provide General Skills Training? A Signaling Perspective”, forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Economics (with Simon Fan)
Book
Chapters:
(1) “Gender Composition and Market Structure in
Hong Kong”, in Product Market Structure and
Labor Treatment, edited by John Heywood and James Peoples, State University
of New York Press, 2006. (with John Heywood)
(2) “Market Integration
between Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland”, in
Others:
RGC Projects:
“Innovative Management Practices and Firm Performance: A Quasi-natural Experiment within a Private Manufacturing Firm in China”, funded by ESRC/RGC Joint Research Scheme: HK$344,000 and GBP78,466. (UK PI: W.S.Siebert; Co-I: John Heywood).
“How Wide Are the Provincial Borders in
China?”, (HK$427,740) 2007. (co-investigator: Simon Fan)
“Convergence to the
Law of One Price in