The Determinants of the Net Migration of Labor out of Agriculture in the Taiwan
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Juang, Huang-Chi
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
From Taiwan's previous economic development, agriculture was the main force of economic development agriculture has a large influence of the economy. However, with the growing economy and industrialization, demand for labor of non-agricultural sector continues to increase. Due to the agricultural sector and non-agricultural sector from the widening gap, the urban-rural gap of income expands gradually. Rural labor force draining and aging makes the population engaged in agriculture decline and then cause’s agricultural sector employment to decrease year by year. However, according to the human resources survey results of Directorate General of Budget, we found that in recent years, net outflow of the employment of Taiwan's agricultural sector is on a decreasing trend. It shows a returning of the agricultural labor force.
Therefore, this study will start from the aspects of sex, age and level of education to observe the employment migration of Taiwan's agricultural sector. On the other hand, this study attempts to find out the reason why Taiwan's agricultural sector labor force returning in recent years. And through the foreign studies of agricultural sector labors migration, to provide the economic factors of affecting agricultural sector labor migration, and to discuss whether these economic factors are the causes of Taiwan's agricultural sector labor force net outflow declining.
By the empirical results of this study, the workers under high school will be affected by the unemployment rate of nonagricultural sector and the relatively share of agricultural and nonagricultural sector. The higher the unemployment rate of nonagricultural sector, the net outflow of agricultural sector workers will reduce; When agricultural and nonagricultural sectors have the relatively higher income, the agricultural sector's net outflow of workers will reduce, too.
According to the empirical results, unemployment rate and income will affect the willingness of migration of workers in the agricultural sector. Therefore, if authorities want to keep the labor force of agricultural sector, they must be committed to improving farm income. For the impact of the unemployment rate, the government can provide more jobs or other possible ways to improve.
Subjects
勞動遷移
勞動力流動
勞動移出
勞動移入
Labor migration
Agriculture labor
Labor mobility
Labor inflow
Labor outflow
SDGs
Type
thesis
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