The Analysis of Employment Duration of Agricultural Sector in Taiwan 1980-2002
Resource
農業與經濟, 34, 001-038
Journal
農業與經濟
Journal Volume
34
Pages
1-38
Date Issued
2005-06
Date
2005-06
Author(s)
邱敬仁
Abstract
In this study, we investigate the impacts of both individual and socioeconomic characteristics on the employment spells of agricultural workers in Taiwan during eighties and nineties. Our results show that individual characteristics play the major roles in influencing the lengths of the employment spells among alternative specifications. And, the estimations need to take into account the impacts from unobservable factors. The younger and the more educated are more likely to move to nonagricultural sector, especially in nineties. As the socioeconomic characteristics, agricultural earnings, regions, and time periods are also play the important roles. The agricultural workers who have lower earnings or who live in west central Taiwan tend to stay longer in agricultural sector. The agricultural workers in nineties tend to have longer working hours and to stay longer in agricultural sector than the workers in eighties. The values of scale parameter are substantially greater than 1 in eighties and significantly smaller than 1 in nineties. It reveals that the employment spells are shorter in eighties than in nineties. Agricultural workers are less likely to move out of agricultural sector in nineties.
Subjects
就業期間
存活分析
不可觀察之差異
Employment duration
Survival analysis
Unobserved heterogeneity
Type
journal article
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