Managing Human Capital

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Managing Human Capital

• What are the major challenges facing Hong Kong,
  London and New York in managing human capital?
• Immigration
• Higher education training
• Research development

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Managing Human Capital

• Immigration
• 3 cities as migrant cities
• The migrant who are they?
• From high end to low end
• From permanent to transient
• From individual to group
• Age, race and ethnicity, class, gender, etc.
• Government responsiveness
• Inclusion/exclusion rights and duties threats
  and opportunities

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Managing Human Capital

• Education
• Early or secondary education to higher education
• Creativity and other attributes
• Education in relation to ethnicity (hierarchy of
  ethnic groups)
• Education in relation to global city
  (competiveness)
• E.g., HK as regional hub of higher education, but
  how?
• Government responses

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Managing Human Capital

• Common themes and comparative research on
• Migration policy (in particular low skill labour
  and social integration and other social factors
  e.g., race and ethnicity, class, age, gender)
• Education as problem/challenge nurture talents
  and competitiveness
• Government responsiveness The role of the state
  and different levels of government (local,
  national and international)