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We utilize Thailand's the financial crisis in 1997 as a natural experiment which exogenously shifts labor demand … shrunk for new entrants after the crisis. We find that workers who entered before the crisis experienced job losses and wage … losses. But these losses were smaller than those of new entrants after the crisis. We also find that new entrants after the …
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mainland China and the defense of the Da-chen islands before and after the initiation of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1954 …This paper uses Taiwan's archival documents to reexamine the two Taiwan Strait crises and the characteristics of Chiang …-1955. Doing so will highlight the contradictory U.S. attitude that contributed to the crisis and weakened its ability to control …
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This paper explores the process of creation of the netbook market by Taiwanese firms as an example of a disruptive innovation by latecomer firms. As an analytical framework, I employ the global value chain perspective to capture the dynamics of vertical inter-firm relationships that drive some...
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Taiwan, Sanyang and Kwang Yang, had completed the catching-up process and became independent from Honda, on which they had …
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Chung-Jen, the president of President Chain Store Corporation. PCSC operates Taiwan's 7-ELEVENs, the largest convenience … store chain on the island. He may be regarded as the most advanced salaried manager in Taiwan today. …
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Over the past 20 years Asian countries have achieved a certain degree of economic growth and at the same time deepened spatial interdependence. In January 2006, IDE completed the 2000 Asian International Input-Output Table, which covers eight major East Asian countries/regions as well as Japan...
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This paper investigates how Taiwan's "one China" concept evolved during the democratization process that occurred under …" concept and that the transformation of the concept resulted from changes in Taiwan's internal political circumstances. The … evolution of the concept creates a real possibility that the "status quo" sought by the ROC in the Taiwan Strait both during and …
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investigate the relationship between location choice and firm characteristics, specifically firms' productivity. Due to Taiwan … prefer a location in an area with a larger agglomeration of Taiwanese affiliates or in an area closer to Taiwan. …
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Labor export has been part of Vietnam’s socio-economic development strategy since the beginning of the doi moi era. Recent years, Vietnam has sent about 80,000 workers abroad per year. Vietnam has become a major source country of unskilled foreign workers for high-income East Asian...
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, setting off the first Taiwan Strait Crisis. This paper focuses on the crisis and analyzes the following three questions: (1 … end the Taiwan Strait Crisis? (2) What were the intentions of the U.S. government in trying to end the Taiwan Strait … Crisis? And (3) how should U.S. policy towards the R.O.C. which led to solving the Taiwan Strait Crisis be positioned in the …
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