The effects of a wage-subsidy policy on the labor market: a study of an internship program provided to college graduates

• Main Authors: Lin,Tzu-Tung, 林子彤
• Other Authors: 陳俊源
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tqcafq

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 企業管理學系 === 106 === In the presence of the 2008 financial crisis, the young generation was confronted with an unemployment problem. In order to increase the employment rate of the young generation, the government implemented in 2009 a wage-subsidy program in the form of internship in enterprises from the 95-academic year to the 97-academic year to provide college graduates with a one-year employment opportunity. The study examined the effects of the wage-subsidy program on wage and employment. The data of the study included monthly data from January, 2004 to December, 2012, retrieved from the TEJ data base. The method of correlation analysis was employed to examine the inter-industry correlations between the wages and those between the numbers of employed workers within five industries and then ANOVA was used to investigate the effects of the wage-subsidy program and the industrial type on the industries' wages and numbers of employed workers. As shown by the results with regard to the before-program-implementation period and the after-program-implementation period, all the inter-industry correlations between the industries' nominal wages and all those between the industries' real wages were found to be statistically significant, while merely some of the inter-industry correlations between the numbers of employed workers were statistically significant. The wage-subsidy program had significant effects on the industries' nominal wages and numbers of employed workers, but no significant effects on the industries' real wages. The factor of the industrial type was found to affect significantly the industries' nominal wages, real wages, and numbers of employed workers. The wage-subsidy program interacted significantly with the industrial type in affecting the industries' numbers of employed workers, while the interactive effects were not significant on the industries' nominal wages and real wages.