Panels of regional unemployment data across different demographic groups are examined to explore the sources of the deterioration in employment in Taiwan during the past decade. The application of the two-factor fixed-effects estimation approach leads to two main findings. First, wide regional...

Using the data from Taiwan’s 2007 manpower utilization survey, we explore the effects of personal characteristics on one’s employment probability and wage rate. The results from Heckman’s (1979) two-step estimation approach show that if one is less educated or at the age of youth, did not...