CUHK Economics Project Exhibition 2020

Group 21: Graduation = Unemployment? - Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Youth Unemployment Problems in Hong Kong

Q&A

A1:

Demand side:

  • Uniformity of Hong Kong's economic structure
  • Slowing down of Hong Kong's economic development
  • Lack of middle management positions

Supply side:

  • Flood of post-secondary programs
  • Declining quality of graduates and varying quality of self-financing post-secondary institutions
  • Global competition in labour market

A2:
  • Delayed employment of young people
  • Large financial burden
  • Existence of abandoned youth, hidden youth, and NEET
  • Lower income
A3: B (HKU (1911) and CUHK (1963))