This paper investigates the current important issue in Taiwan that the impact of foreign workers on the rising unemployment rate by constructing a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium model. The results show that foreign workers rob jobs from the local unskilled labor and raise the unemployment rates during the past decade. However, extending the time frame to a longer term, an increasing ...

We set up a search and matching model with private public sector to understand the effects of employment wage policies in on unemployment education decisions. The educational composition labor force depend crucially structure market. An increase skilled public-sector wages has small positive impact larger negative workers, if two sectors are segmented. If there movements across sectors, it larg...

Abstract This article studies the implications of highly skilled labor international migration in a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. The model considers three types workers: Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) workers, non-STEM college educated and non-college workers. Aggregate productivity each economy is function innovations, which can be produced...

Test of digit retention was carried out to investigate if the usually accepted norm of 7 forward digit retention holds true in our population. The highest mean score of 8.85 was obtained by executives. Professionals scored a mean of 8.08 followed by students (7.81). Housewives, skilled workers and unskilled workers scored less than the accepted norm of 7 digit forward retention. A strong influe...

The theoretical insights of Heckscher and Ohlin, Feenstra and Hanson, and Tang and Wood between them provide a plausible explanation of the varied effects of globalisation on wage inequalities in developed and developing countries. In combination, these three theories can explain, among other things, why inequality has fallen in some developing countries but risen in others. Improved travel and...

Depending on the design of the domestic pension system and the type of immigrants, voters will decide differently on immigration policy. In this paper, we investigate the voting outcome of three groups of heterogenous voters (skilled workers, unskilled workers, and retirees) under Beveridgian or Bismarckian pension systems which are either of the fixed contribution rate or the fixed replacement...

BACKGROUND The scientific evidence available is consistent in linking osteoarthritis (OA) and occupation but is lacking information regarding preventable risks in the workplace. AIMS To explore the effect of different dimensions of physical demand in the relation between self reported OA and occupation. METHODS Nationwide population survey of employed and self employed adults aged 25-64. ...

Migration and pollution are two defining features of China's impressive growth performance over the last 30 years. In this paper we study migration response to in Chinese cities, its consequences for productivity welfare. We document a robust pattern which skilled workers emigrate more than unskilled. Their greater sensitivity air quality holds up cross-sectional variation across panel with ind...

The paper examines the gains from North-South trade and their distribution. In a `new growth, new trade' framework, we examine the factors that determine four phases or stages of development in the South as equilibria: specialisation in a traditional good; the South in addition copies Northern innovative manufactured goods; the South begins to innovate in its own right and nally a stage in whic...