Unemployment and Policy Responses in Taiwan: Gender and Family Implications

Fen-ling Chen

Chapter 7 in Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia, 2005, pp 170-190 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Taiwanese economy has shown strong performance since the 1970s and national income has steadily increased. The outstanding success of Taiwan and other ‘Tiger’ economies in Asia challenged the contentions that economic development was unlikely in less developed countries: Taiwan moved from an underdeveloped agrarian economy to an industrialized one in a little more than a generation. Democratization took place side by side with rapid economic development, since the mid-1980s, Taiwan has become a welfare state that aims to establish social rights alongside progress in democratization and economic development.

Keywords: National Health Insurance; Unemployment Insurance; Foreign Worker; Labour Insurance; Public Employment Service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523661_8

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