| 英文摘要 |
To improve economic well-being, aborigines can choose to migrate from rural to urban area. As an alternative, they can decide to participate in government employment assistance programs. This study aims to disentangle the impacts of these two available options on the economic well-being, including earnings, income, hourly wages, happiness, of aborigines in Taiwan. Using a sample of 1,652 respondents drawn from the Taiwan Indigenous People Survey in 2008, this study estimates a multinomial sample selection model to identify the factors that are associated with aborigines’ chooses of rural-urban migration or participation in government employment assistance programs. Moreover, this study distinguishes the effects of these two options on economic well-being of aborigines in Taiwan. Empirical results show that government employment assistance programs can significantly reduce the inequality of economic well-being of aborigines in Taiwan. |
