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...

The Labor Standards Law of Taiwan requires employers to offer maternity and pregnancy 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....

Using both the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the 1/1,000 sample of the 1960 Census, we find that much more of the racial earnings gap should be attributed to labor-market discrimination than to differences in years of school. Although differences in scholastic attainment have more...

In this paper an attempt is made to estimate the degree of inequality of educational opportunity at the secondary school level. Data from the 1/1,000 sample of the 1960 Census are used to estimate the probabilities of falling behind in school or dropping out for children from different family...