The impact of tariff-cut on different industrial workers' wage - A Case Study in Taiwan from 1980 to 2001 before joining WTO
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Jeng, Ming-Jhe
Abstract
In this study, the impact of tariff-cut on different industrial workers'' wage was analyzed using combined data of Manpower Utilization Surveys and trade statistics from 1982 to 2001, the year before Taiwan joined WTO. To evaluate wage change, we used Mincer''s wage funtion (1974) derived from human capital theory and added real tariff, which is represended by each industry''s total tariff revenue divided by their respective total import value, as independent variable. We controled industries''and time fixed effect plus interaction term of industry and real tariff to distinguish tariff influence on the wage of each industry. In most industries, higher tariff resulted in higher wage. For industries relying on imported raw material, higher tariff had negative impact on wage instead. Tariff had no signifiant impact on wage in those industries when the percentage of net export value to the total output was controlled. Also, analysis using quantile regression model revealed that effective tariff had varying influence on different income levels within an industry. Lower income levels were more prominently affected.
Subjects
Wage
Tariff
Income level
Type
thesis
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