The Effect of Tariff Reduction on Taiwan''s Labor Employment

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 產業經濟學系 === 84 === With the rapid development of Taiwan''s economics and the gradual frequencyto external trade, the activity for the whole economics is more popular.In the expansion for production activities, the industral struct...

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Main Authors: Yu, Yung Chiang, 尤湧強
Other Authors: Li Ping-Cheng
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 1996
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54923182786454513209
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Summary:碩士 === 淡江大學 === 產業經濟學系 === 84 === With the rapid development of Taiwan''s economics and the gradual frequencyto external trade, the activity for the whole economics is more popular.In the expansion for production activities, the industral structure also bechanged results to ask for different productive technology in differentindustry. And this causes the problem of structural unemployment. Owing toliberalization is the tendency of the world trade now, government intentsto join in the international organization for economics, for example WTO.Joining in WTO can increase the trade amount to our country, raises thenational production, and speeds up the intustrial advance and economictransformation. However, in the process of the trade liberalization, it isnecessary to pay for as much as price. The most direct thing is to make ashock to labor employmental market. This study uses the static CGE model toappraise the effect of tariff reduction on trade liberilization underdifferent exchange rate in regard to our labor employment creating effectof long run and short run.In production side of this model, the industry is divided to 29 departments byCES production function indicated production technology. On trade side, CESfunction expresses import and CET function expresses export. On demand side,household consumption is showed by linear expenditure system. The purposein this paper is two policy simulations : the one is single liberalization topredict the variance for labor employment in individual branch at 2000.The reduction of tariff in agriculture and animal is 36 $\%$ and on otherdepartment is 38 $\%$. The other is biliteral liberalization to predict theworld trade index attaches to 1.08 at 2000. The reduction of tariff is the sameas the former.No matter single or biliteral liberalization, most of labors decreasionin short-run are much smaller than in long-run. This indicates non-comparitivecpmpetition advantages department results to much more unemployment inindustrial adjusting.At this time, the industry possessing technical advantage absorbes largelythese losing labors and makes vigorous. However, at the base of the impossibletransformation on whole labors between departments, government should givedomestic labors appropriate protection and helpness before joining ininternational economic organization.