This article extends the demand shift analysis of Katz and Murphy (1992) to examine the impact of Taiwan's science and technology development policy on the wage structure between 1979 and 1998. Changes in factor demand are required to account for changes in the wage structure throughout this...

This article examines five development processes and their contributions to wage inequality in Taiwan: the growth of skill-intensive industries, educational expansion, factor-specific technical change, aging of the population, and the feminization of the labor force. The method used is a...