英文摘要 |
The prevalence of higher education and the global financial crisis have had a significant influence on the labour conditions and labour productivity in the labour market. This study uses the East Asian Social Survey (EASS) conducted in 2006, 2008, and 2010, to compare the changes in the employment patterns before and after 2008. It also examines the effects of higher education and this crisis on the redistribution of unemployment risks in terms of period and cohort effects. This study finds that the global financial crisis that commenced in late 2007 was not the main reason that the employment patterns in Taiwan shifted towards “new poverty”, which is characterized by working poor and low-paying full-time jobs. It was not until after 2008 that there was a significant shift in employment patterns towards “lowpaying jobs with short working hours”. The prevalence of higher education implies that those who were born between 1967-1976 and 1977 had higher risks of becoming the working poor. On the other hand, the better educated have a lower chance of getting low-paying jobs with short working hours. However, there is no evidence that the less educated have a higher chance of falling into the “new poverty” category. Nevertheless, it is clear that manual workers bear a much higher risk of unemployment in a volatile labour market. |