The Effects of Global Competition from China on Taiwanese Labor Market
2016/04/26
研討會日期 : 2016-04-26
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Hao-Chung Li
主持人 : Professor Tzu-Ting Yang
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Prof. Li received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Southern California. He is currently an Assistant Professor at National Chengchi University. His research fields are International Economics, and Labor Economics.
演講摘要 : This paper investigates how intensified global competition from Chinese products affect Taiwanese labor market from 1990 to 2011. We find that intensified Chinese competition is associated decrease in manufacturing employment, with the brunt of impacts borne by low- and middle- education level workers. We also find that a lengthier industry quality can shield low-education level workers from Chinese competition, but initially quality advantageous industries are more likely to decrease low-education level worker employment when facing more Chinese competition. Our wage regression results suggest that among manufacturing industries an increase in Chinese competition does not affect high-education level workers’ wages but is associated with a decrease in non-high education level workers’ wages.
