This paper brings together available data and studies on off-farm activities in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and other Asian countriesand examines the forces underlying the levels and trends of nonagricultural incomes. Nonugricultural activities is defined here as all activities in the industrial...

One of the unsettled issues in Philippine economic development is the decline in real wages per worker while GNP/national income per Worker was rising, This divergence in the Philippines is unusual in the postwar experience of Asia as in both Taiwan and South Korea, growth was accompanied by...

The paper examines the phenomenon of full employment in Japan, the first country to reach such stage in postwar Asia, and of Taiwan which achieved it in the late 1960s. lt looks into its manifestation, and how it was attained and sustained; and finally, how it affects macro growth rates,...