Due to the impact of globalization, enterprises have undertaken all possible cuts to survive. Fresh-outs have encountered obstacles entering job markets. Unemployment rate has reached its record high. The solution could be ¡§Invest & Emigrate Abroad¡¨ to create job opportunities for Taiwan people. This study ¡§The Impact of Foreign Investment and Emigration on the Unemployment¡¨ is to find ways for people from Taiwan to be employed abroad. With the assistance of Government, this would be a win-win solution for employers and work force in Taiwan. The purpose of this study is outlined below: 1. Providing solutions to lessen the impact of globalization which are causing closure and relocations of businesses. 2. Providing solutions to prevent mid-aged work force losing their jobs. 3. Encouraging educated workers to emigrate, this could in turn promote the image of Taiwan. 4. Assisting businesses to find opportunities abroad. 5. Emigrating to other countries can reduce unemployment rate and improve quality life in Taiwan. The research procedures and their flow are designed based on the objectives of this study. The sources of literature and the definitions of the issues are considered in designing the procedure. The research constructions then are planned according to the chosen research method. There are two research issues: A and B. Issue A: Would the perception of the factors which cause the closure of businesses and workers to lose jobs vary due to personal characteristics. Issue B: Would the perception of the important issues which cause businesses to close and workers to lose jobs vary due to personal characteristics.¡C The questionnaire consists of 31 questions. 450 copies were sent via mail or hand delivery. 331 responded and collected. 9 out of 331 were invalid. Valid rate is 73%. People randomly chosen to fill out the questionnaire or to be interviewed included those from manufacturing, construction, services, agriculture, governmental, and academic (incl. students) fields. 68% perceived that ¡§Invest & Emigrate Abroad¡¨ could help businesses and improve employment environment. The details of the results are as followed: Issue A¡GUsing factor analysis to operate measuring tool, we chose 4 major factors. According to the definitions¡]Organized Emigration with Special Task Officials¡BInvestment & Emigration improve investment environment¡BEmigration can reduce unemployment¡BPlanning Emigration & Investment Strategies and Changes of Policies¡^, the findings from Variation Analysis are¡G ¡]1¡^Organized Emigration with Special Task Officials: Investment & Emigration is highly interested by those who are currently employed. North America, South-East Asia, Mainland China, Europe, Australia, and North-East Asia are highly preferred to Africa. Male have stronger interest than Female. ¡]2¡^Investment & Emigration improves investment environment: As the scale of investment and capital, most prefer small/mid sizes. In this case, More Male think so than Female. ¡]3¡^Capitals on ¡§Emigration can reduce population and unemployment rate¡¨¡GAs far as ¡§using small/mid size capital to invest in big enterprises¡¨ more people from service industry show the support than those from governmental offices. ¡]4¡^Places to Invest & Emigrate on ¡§Planning Emigration & Investment Strategies and Changes of Policies¡¨¡G North America, South-East Asia, Mainland China, Europe, Australia, and North-East Asia are highly preferred. Male are more so than Female. Issue B¡GWould the perception of the important issues which cause the closure of businesses and workers to lose jobs vary due to personal characteristics? The results from Variation Analysis are¡G ¡]1¡^Providing businesses with the best investment environment: Workers with certain amount of education are preferred. Countries are crucial too. However the differences of preference among countries are insignificant. Age is an important consideration, yet the differences aren¡¦t significant. ¡]2¡^Looking to the governmental officials to reduce unemployment rate¡GNo significance ¡]3¡^Looking to the governmental officials to provide education and training¡GNo significance ¡]4¡^Providing Internal Affairs Ministry with solutions to reduce population¡G In terms of scope of investment: ¡§using small/mid size capital to invest in big enterprises¡¨, more professionals think it feasible, however¡Ano data refer to any significance among different sources. On the age issue, it is also feasible, however¡Ano data refer to any significance among different sources. ¡]5¡^¡§Organized Invest & Emigrate can promote the image of Taiwan¡¨¡GLocations are vital but no data refer to the differences among countries. Gender wise, Male has more significant response than Female. ¡]6¡^The relationship between the effective globalization of businesses and emigration policies¡¨¡GLocations are vital but no data refer to the differences among countries. Age is an important factor but no significance among various data. Profession wise: More governmental workers than in the industries. To sum up, the government ought to pass the ¡§Policies for Emigration Offices (EO)¡¨. EO then can plan ¡§ Optimal Invest & Emigrate Abroad¡¨. At the same time, with the very large scale of governmental infrastructure projects, there would be a great increase of employment opportunities. Thus, foreign labors would be reduced gradually. By the same token, the closure of businesses and unemployment rate would be reduced. The suggestions of this study are¡G 1. How to plan ¡uThe Optimum population¡vto emigrate to reduce unemployment rate. 2. How to plan ¡§Invest & Emigrate¡¨ in order to bring economic benefits to the subject countries 3. How to set up Special Task Offices in the Government for implementations. 4. How to organize strategic industry groups¡C 5. The implementation steps to realize the big project.

Economy is an very important factor to the cause of crimes. The unemployment rate play a key role to the economy side of a society. Besides, the probability of being arrested is also been calculated by the offenders. So this paper tries to use the crime rate ,clearance rate , unemployment rate , as variables to discuss their relations. This paper selects 138 data samples from January, 1995 to June, 2006, analyze them by Literature Survey Method¡BUnit Root Test Method¡BJohansen of Maximum Likelihood Estimation Method. The result shows that constantly descend in the other conditions, when the unemployment rate increases by 1%, causing the crime rate to increase by 3.38%, namely the unemployment rate increases the function for the crime rate. When the clearance rate increase by 1%, the crime rate will be reduced by 0.67%, meaning that then clearance rate can reduce the function of the crime rate.

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Project (M.P.P.) - Simon Fraser University, 2006. / Theses (Master of Public Policy Program) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

This dissertation consists of three essays in Housing and Family Economics. In the first chapter, I analyze the interstate migration patterns of families and the effect of labor force attachment of women on joint migration decisions. I show that as the earned income of spouses become similar, the probability of migration falls substantially. This observation is robust in the sense that 1) it holds even after controlling for a rich set of factors that are strongly correlated with relative income, 2) it yields qualitatively similar results when I model the incidence of attrition as another exit, 3) it consistently disappears for the shorter distance moves. I also find that the negative relationship between income similarity of couples and interstate migration is especially strong for supposedly more settled families and couples that have similar labor market characteristics beyond income levels. In the second chapter, I quantify the contribution of women's labor force attachment to the declining trend in interstate migration. I first document that for families in which both spouses have similar incomes, the propensity to migrate is significantly lower than for families with unequal spousal earnings. I then construct a labor search model in which households make location, marriage, and divorce decisions. I calibrate the model to match aggregate U.S. statistics on mobility, marriage and labor flows and use it to quantify the effect of a fall in the gender wage gap on interstate migration. Narrowing the gender wage gap increases women's contribution to total family income; it induces a higher share of families with both spouses working and more couples with similar incomes. The model predicts that the observed change in the gender wage gap accounts for 35% of the drop in family migration since 1981. Finally, in the third chapter, I examine the effects of homeownership on individuals' unemployment durations in the USA. I take into account that an unemployment spell can terminate with a job or with a non-participation transition. The endogeneity of homeownership is addressed through the estimation of a full maximum likelihood function which jointly models the competing hazards and the probability of being a homeowner. Unobserved factors contributing to the probability of being a homeowner are allowed to be correlated with unobservable heterogeneity in the hazard rates. Tentative results suggest that unemployed homeowners are less likely to find a job which is especially stronger for outright owners. I also find that homeowners' nonparticipation hazard does not significantly differ from that of renters' although having a mortgage lowers the chance of exiting the labor force. / text

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The present MA paper aims to analyse one of the most important objects of the governmental social politics – social exclusion as a result of long-term unemployment. Social exclusion is understood as human rights violations existing in society for certain groups of people, involuntary (or voluntary) remoteness from social, economical and cultural values, as well as the break of social contacts. An overcome of social exclusion is related to the governmental social security politics. Despite the fact that this process depends on the three main groups of factors – legal political, social economical and cultural psychological factor, special attention should be paid to unemployment, which is one of the main reasons of social exclusion. In case of loss of job, a person loses the possibility to satisfy his or her communication and self-expression needs. The proposed hypothesis of the present MA paper is that the passive support means for the unemployed are dominant in Lithuania. These means make the problem of the social exclusion even deeper and they do not encourage the unemployed (especially the ones who have been unemployed for a long time) to search for job. This paper aims to summarise the specific character of the social exclusion, which was caused by unemployment during the period of independence in Lithuania. Moreover, the paper deals with the influence of the social support in case of unemployment and strives to state its differences in cities and countryside.

When Lithuania became the part of the Europian Union market, it has to compete with increasing competition of the international market. The following elements: work qualification, material investment, skills of marketing and management, scientific research papers determine work productivity and competitive advantages of the country. In such conditions Lithuanian companies can compete in the international market but this depends from the company staff, how they manage to use their knowledge, qualification and creativity. If we want not to be behind with the world tendencies in the state and company level, it is important to understand human resources and to develop them. Unemployment problem is one of the biggest world economical and social problems.Increasing busyness promotes economic growth and increasing work income of people guarantees stability of the country and welfare of the people.That is why big and effective busyness is one of the most important social political aims of the state, which can be successfully solved by decreasing unemployment by creating new work places. Talking about the improvement of vocational training system it is planned to optimise vocational institutions, create training quality sponsorship system, to give the evaluation of the qualification to institutions which represent competetive employers, develop distance training, integrate into the market groups (unemployed people, young people without profession or people who only start their... [to full text]

This dissertation provides an empirical analysis of the correlates of long-term unemployment in South Africa using national survey data from 2001 and 2007. Within the South African context, very little research relating to the length of unemployment spells has been conducted. The negative implications of long-term unemployment necessitate a clearer understanding of the factors that affect this phenomenon. Of particular interest to this study is the impact of human capital variables, measured by education and previous work experience, on the length of unemployment spells. The results indicate that in 2001 a degree or diploma was the only level of education that reduced the probability of long-term unemployment amongst the strictly unemployed. By 2007, no level of the education had an effect on the probability of long-term unemployment. These results raise serious questions about the ability of formal South African education qualifications to act as a proxy for human capital and thus the productive capacity of individuals. In contrast, having previous work experience significantly reduced the probability of long-term unemployment amongst the strictly unemployed in both 2001 and 2007. These results suggest that relative to education, previous work experience is a more accurate and thus acceptable measure of an individual’s productive potential amongst prospective employers. Finally, given the variety of negative effects associated with long-term unemployment such as crime, poverty as well as human capital depreciation, it is important that steps are taken to reduce the phenomenon. A short discussion is provided on the implementation of a wage subsidy which could be targeted towards the unemployed most prone to long-term unemployment; this would help these individuals to secure employment and thus gain valuable work experience. It is this work experience which will play a critical role in determining the future employment prospects of individuals within the South African economy. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.