TY - BOOK AU - LIU MINHUI AU - HO Lok Sang AU - HUANG Kai Wai TI - Upwards earning mobility in Hong Kong: policy implications based on a census data narrative PY - 2023/// KW - CHINA KW - EARNINGS KW - CENSUS N2 - Using census data spanning several decades, this paper offers a new and intuitive approach to understanding earnings mobility. We use "mobility ratios" and "immobility ratios" as indicators of the speed of upward mobility at the top end (i.e. moving into the ranks of the well-off) and the bottom end of the income distribution (i.e. moving out of poverty) as each cohort ages UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022001230 ER -