Representative Publications
Journal
Articles:
(1) “Compensating Wage Differentials for Workplace Accidents: Evidence from the 1983 General Household Survey for Union and Non‑union Workers”, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 9:61‑76, 1994. (with Stan Siebert)
(2) “On Measuring the Value of Life”, Economics Letters, 49:223-230, 1995. (with J.L.Ford and P.K.Pattanaik)
(3) “Payment by Results Systems: British Evidence”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 35(1) March 1997 (with John Heywood and Stan Siebert)
(4) “Piece Rate Payment Schemes and the Employment of Women: the Case of Hong Kong”, Journal of Comparative Economics, 25(2): 237-255, October 1997. (with John Heywood)
(5) “The Determinants of Hiring Older Workers: Evidence from Hong Kong”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 52(3): 444-459, April 1999. (with John Heywood and Lok-Sang Ho).
(6) “Estimating British Workers' Demand for Safety”, Applied Economics, 31(10): 1265-1272, October 1999.
(7) “Worker sorting and job satisfaction: The case of union and government jobs”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 55(4): 595-609, July 2002. (with J.S.Heywood and W.S.Siebert)
(8) “Unions and Plant Closings: Britain in the 1990s”, Southern Economic Journal, 69(4): 822-41, April 2003. Also appeared in Recent Developments in Labor Economics, edited by John T. Addison, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (with J.T.Addison and J.S.Heywood)
(9) “Education and the
Signalling Hypothesis: Evidence from a Highly Competitive Labor Market”, Education
Economics, 12(1):1-16, April 2004. (with John Heywood)
(10) “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)
(11) “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)
(12) “The Implicit
Market for Family Friendly Work Practices”, Oxford
Economic Papers, 59:275-300, 2007. (with John Heywood and Stan Siebert).
(13) “Wage Compensation
for Job-Related Illness in the UK”, Journal
of Risk and Uncertainty, 34: 85-98, 2007.
(14) “Teamwork,
Monitoring, Absence and Productivity”, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization 68(3-4): 676-90, December 2008. (with
John Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn)
(15) “Competitiveness
of the Hong Kong Economy”, China Economic
Review 20(3)：573-586，September 2009. (with Hongyi Li and
Danyang Xu).
(16) “Why Do Firms Provide General Skills Training? A Signaling Perspective”, Canadian Journal of Economics 43(2): 602-21, May 2010. (with Simon Fan)
(17) "Estimating the Use of Agency Workers:Can Family Friendly Practices Reduce their Use?", Industrial Relations 50(3): 535-50, July 2011. (with John Heywood and Stan Siebert).
(18) "Piece Rate for Professors", Economics Letters, Forthcoming January 2012. (with John Heywood and Guangliang Ye)
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