3
رمة
Insurance Policy
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One recent development has been the emergence of "insurance policy" type immigration schemes whereby Hong Kong people secure the right to enter another country at some future time, either without time restriction at all
restrictions.
will
or
with Nationality
very
liberal
time
package,
for
example,
▼
The U.K
full provide
The
and
two
for one
requiring a Singapore
technicians,
one schemes,
the latter
period of U.K.
for
for
British passports for 50,000 heads of households (up to
without people)
225,000 residence. professionals
has introduced 2
to
25,000 households, provide approval in principle to move further 5 to Singapore valid for 5 years, renewable for a
more modest scheme benefit employees of French companies in Hong Kong,
considering similar packages.
years.
France
are
and The
stay
other countries combined effect of such schemes is to retain in Hong Kong
well large numbers of
to qualified people content because they have the insurance policy of assured departure at any time if this becomes necessary.
Profiles
10.
Age. The age profile of emigrants, as compared to the population, shows disproportionately more in the age group 25 - 44 and disproportionately fewer in other age groups. There are particularly few emigrants in the age group 65 and above.
11.
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Education. In 1988, Some 6,900 persons with degree level attainment left Hong Kong while the figures for 1989 and 1990 are 6,100 and 9,000 respectively. Such people are about 15% of all emigrants though they comprise only 4% of the population. However, Hong Kong still enjoys a net gain in the number of graduates each year because total production (output of local tertiary institutions plus those graduating overseas) plus imported skills exceeds losses to emigration by a wide margin. During the period 1985 to 1990, the total number of people in Hong Kong with degree level attainment grew from just under 150,000 to more than 220,000.
12.
Employment
in
ریم
In 1988, some 11.200 of the emigrants were
the "professional, technical, administrative and managerial” category of the work Sorce. The figures for 1989 and 1990 were 9,800 and 14,700 respectively. In other words, such people art little under a quarter of all emigrants though they are only about 6% of the population as a whole. However, the overall number of people in this category in Hong Kong has grown in percentage terms, from 10%
12% of
of the work force, and in
in absolute terms from 280,000 to
to 230,000 in the period 1985 - 1990.
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