The Labor Standards Law of Taiwan requires employers to offer pregnancy and maternity benefits. Because these requirements increase the cost to firms of employing young women, standard economic theory predicts that such workers will experience a relative decline in employment, wages, or both....

Purpose – To measure the effects of work-sharing arrangements on participants’ subsequent labor market outcomes in Taiwan such as full-time employment rates, working hours of women and men and the difference in scale effect and effect of substitution between hours and employment for women...