研究報告書

Industrial Labor Statistics in Taiwan, c. 1929-66 : Bridging the Gap of WWII

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2000-04-05

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近現代アジア比較数量経済分析;1

Labor statstics appended to pre-war Taiwan industrial statistics seem to have included, in addition to factory workers, shop workers in cottage industries and side-jobbers from primary industries. Based on this interpretation, we attempt to ascertain the total number of gainfully occupied persons in the manufacturing sector by adding the figures for clerical workers, engineers and miscellaneous workers obtained from the Manufacturing Resource Survey to the aforementioned statistics of shop workers. Combining them with the figures for mining and utility service labor and linking them to the corresponding figures in the post-war employment statistics, we may discern employment trends in Taiwan's secondary industries before and after the Second World War. Combined with the estimates of real value added in these industries during the period, they provide clues to capture the trends in the real average labor productivity during the period in question.

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