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Aggregate- and individual-level occupational outcomes in the Taiwan economy: Evolutionary changes from 1980 to 1992.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Aggregate- and individual-level occupational outcomes in the Taiwan economy: Evolutionary changes from 1980 to 1992./
Author:	Kraus, Amanda Brett Newton.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2003,
Description:	159 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International65-06A.
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3104419
ISBN:	9780496519866

Aggregate- and individual-level occupational outcomes in the Taiwan economy: Evolutionary changes from 1980 to 1992.
Kraus, Amanda Brett Newton.

Aggregate- and individual-level occupational outcomes in the Taiwan economy: Evolutionary changes from 1980 to 1992. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2003 - 159 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2003.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the evolution of the occupational structure of the Taiwan economy during the period 1980 to 1992. Specifically, I ask, how and why did the occupational structure of total employment change, and what was the impact of those changes on Taiwanese workers in terms of individual occupational attainment and earnings? In Chapter 3.1, I find that compared to changes in the occupational earnings structure, changes in occupational attainment contributed relatively little to changes in the measured returns to secondary and higher education. Thus, in terms of earnings, workers with secondary and higher education had comparable employment opportunities at the beginning of the study period and at the end of it. In addition, I find no evidence that workers in expanding education groups became systematically employed in less skilled jobs as their numbers increased. In Chapter 3.2, I address the following questions: How did the occupational structure of total employment in Taiwan change during the study period, and what drove the changes that occurred? More specifically, I examine the extent to which changes in the occupational structure of employment could be linked to changes in both the industrial structure of employment and the educational attainment of the workforce. I find that the occupational upgrading that occurred was largely due to simultaneous, reinforcing shifts of both occupation-specific supply and demand. Finally, in Chapter 3.3, I test whether Taiwanese workers with secondary and higher education allocated themselves between unemployment and under-employment according to expected wage equalization as described in the Harris-Todaro (HT) model. This line of inquiry is relevant because the HT model predicts that when increases in the demand for labor in a given occupation do not keep pace with increases in supply, educational expansion may result in higher rates of educated unemployment. I find that increases in the skilled earnings premium were associated with increases in the likelihood of skilled unemployment. This result indicates that the HT model may indeed by appropriate for Taiwan.

ISBN: 9780496519866Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.
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China

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