An Empirical Comparison of the Employment Status between Foreign and Native-born Spouses in Taiwan

• Main Authors: MEI WAI IP, KATE, 葉美懷
• Other Authors: Chuang, Hwei-Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15934246429560353187

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 經濟學系 === 98 === The purpose of this thesis is to examine employment status between foreign spouses and native-born spouses in Taiwan. We estimate the employment probability differential based on Yun’s non-linear decomposition model. The wage differential analysis is based on Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. The empirical analysis has been carried out using data from both The 2003 and 2008 Survey of Foreign and Mainland Spouses’ Lift status collected by Ministry of Interior, R.O.C., The 2003 Survey of Women’s Marriage, Fertility and Employment as well as The 2008 Manpower Utilization Survey collected by National Statistics, R.O.C. Employment decision of native-born spouses is strongly correlated with her human capital, but slightly correlated with their family background. However, employment decision of foreign spouses is strongly correlated with their citizenship status, also strongly correlated with their family background. The employment differential between foreign spouses and native-born spouses is almost entirely due to difference in coefficient, especially in the coefficient of age, year since migration and their squared terms. Wage of native-born spouses and foreign spouses is strongly correlated with their individual characteristic variables and job characteristic variables. It is found that the difference in characteristic reduces the wage differential between the two groups, but the difference in coefficient increases their wage differentials.