In the past few years, the prominent achievement of economy in Taiwan has been called the ¡§ Taiwan Experience¡¨ or ¡§The Miracle of Economy¡¨. Urban is not only the place that people gather to take economic activities and live in groups, but also the area that produce and consume goods. Now the modern economy has expanded as the type of urban economic. Nowadays, service industry which has been the major industry during the transition of industrial structure in Taiwan could be an illustration that Taiwan is in the age of Service Economy, the functions of a city are going to be more various and delicate, and the division of industry is tending to be more professional. Though the service industry that just serves customers in the past can¡¦t totally meet the needs of the public, the growth of its high specialization and output value bridges the gap for the problems resulted from the manufacturing industry. Most important, the producer service industry has become the main industry in the world.
The purpose of this research is to understand the development in the present and tendency of producer service industry, and also to measure the space efficiency of producer service industry in 22 counties for three years by Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA). The research is divided into five parts: the first part includes research structure and literature review. The second part is to discuss and figure out the theory of DEA. The third part is to analyze the transition and development of producer service in present days. In the fourth part of the research measures the efficiency of producer service industry in 22 counties, in the mean time it estimates the relation of among efficiency, agglomerate economy, city scale, public investment, and the development of other industries by regression analysis and chi-square test. Then the conclusions and recommendations would be discussed to government that makes the plans of economy industry policy and the development of producer service industry. The conclusions of this research are:
1.The producer service industry in Taiwan grows rapidly, and the industry gathers in Taipei city which Location Quotient is more than one . In addition, Taipei city plays the most role for industry¡¦s output value, the numbers of employees and factories Moreover, the producer service industry in Taipei Metropolitan Area and other Metropolitan city gradually grows. Furthermore, the industry is expanding to the nearby metropolitan gradually.
2.The producer service industry and the industries in the producer service industry are influenced by Forward Linkage Effect. This shows that the industry grows rapidly following other industries development during the development of economy.
3.The producer service industry in Taipei city shows the excellent space efficiency. On the other hand, the some of 22 cities areas showed efficiency from 1986 to 1991, and the nearby metropolitan area also showed efficiency in 1996, especially in Taipei metropolitan area and in Kaohsiung metropolitan area.
4.The space efficiency of producer service industry shows remarkable relation with city scale, agglomerate economy and public investment. Additionally, the producer service industry also has the close relation with manufacturing industry and non-producer service industry during the development of industry.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0611102-140150 |
| Date | 11 June 2002 |
| Creators | Lin, Chris |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0611102-140150 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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