From Family To Labor Market

Taiwan province has made great success in economy since the end of World War II , and it became one of the NIEs(Newly Industrialized Economies ).Since1980, the economy of Taiwan has been freer and more open, and the industry became more and more Capital-intensive and Technology-intensive. The new situation needs for great deals of labor force,both in quantity and quality. At this time, the LFPR(labor force participation rates) has reached a high level, the MLFPR(male labor force participation rates) has began to declined, and the FLFPR(female labor force participation rates) has raised notably,it's obvious that female labor force is important to the development of Taiwan economy. Either compared with the demands of the island or those of the other developed areas, the FLFPR of Taiwan should raise higher to meet the continuant development. Based on former studies, the paper reviews the changes of the FLFPR in Taiwan, and particularly analyzes the characteristics of demands for labor force in different industries. A frame including the industrial structure has been set up to verify the influence of demand-side factor. It shows that, from 1981 to 2004, the FLFPR has been obviously influenced by the industrial structure, especially by the rapid development of service sectors.The characteristics and innovations of this paper are: (1) It pays attention to the perticularity of times, and aims at the demand-side factor which influences the FLFPR. (2) It adopts contribution rates of employment and employment elasticity, to anayze how the industry structure influences the FLFPR, and a visual map has been made to reflect the distributing of female labor force as well as the trend. (3) It uses t-Test and Granger Causality Test to solve the problems of multicollinearity and spurious regression, so the whole model is convictive. (4) The regression model uses a five-year age group, so it can totally reflect the characteristics of FLFPR.