Quantitative Social Science Seminar Series, Fall 2011

Following the success made in previous semesters, we are delighted to announce that the Quantitative Social Science Seminar Series will continue in November and December 2011. In this semester, three speakers specializing in different topics of inequality will be giving talks to us on 3 Friday afternoons. Our first speaker, Miss Zheng Bingdao, will talk about the impact of tax-for-fee reform implemented in rural China on rural migration using the data from the Chinese Household Income Project 2002. All from UST and elsewhere are welcome to join.

For more information about this seminar series, please go to the following link:

http://eng.caser.ust.hk/seminars.html

Spring 2012 Meeting of ISA RC28 in Hong Kong, May 10-13, 2012

The Spring meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) will be held in Hong Kong SAR, China, from May 10-13, 2012. The theme of the conference is: Economic Transformation and Social Stratification in Comparative Perspectives.

We cordinally invite paper submissions for the meeting on topics relevant to social stratification and mobility (e.g. education, family, gender, labor market, income, social exclusion, elites, migration, race & ethnicity). Papers relevant to the main theme will be particularly welcome.

To submit application or know more about the conference, please visit the RC28 website(http://rc28.ust.hk/).