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題 名 | 臺灣農業勞動之供需與將來變動之傾向=The Supply of and Demand for Taiwan Agricultural Labor and the Projected Changes in the Future |
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作 者 | 許文富(Hsu, Wen-fu; | 書刊名 | 中華農學會報 |
卷 期 | 60 民56.12 |
頁 次 | 頁107-120 |
關鍵詞 | 臺灣; 農業勞動; |
語 文 | 中文(Chinese) |
英文摘要 | The purposes of this study were twofold: First, to reexamine the supply of and demand for agricultural labor in Taiwan, and to estimate the degree of underemployment in the rural areas in order to justify the statements that a serious labor surplus problem existed in agricultural sector. Second, to project the structural changes in patterns of supply and demand for labor during the process of econmic development. Data of 501 record-keeping farmers on the whole province were used for this analysis. The findings of the study were summarized as follows: 1. The size of farm family, on the average, were 8.23 persons, of which 3.19 persons were engaging in agricultural production. These amount of labor are equivalent to 2.42 man equivalents. Thus, the total labor supply in a farm household was equivalent to 798 labor units, if the total working days in a year were counted as 330 days. 2. The demand for agricultural labor under the existing patterns of farming was approximately 518 labor units. However, there existed a considerable variation in labor requirement among various months of hte year, For example, in the peak season of July, the total labor requirement accounted for 57 labor units, as compared to the slack season of December, in which the total labor requirement were merely 37 labor units. 3. On the basis of the foregoing analysis, it was found that the underemployment of agricultural laborers was 35% or less of the total available labor supply. This implied that the traditional thinking that the underemployment population amounted to 50% or more of the total labor force might be over estimated. 4. The over-estimate of the labor force in rural areas appeared to be arised from the misapplication of our agricultural population statistics, since members of farm families, who did not actually engage in agricultural production had been counted as agricutural population under the existing system. 5. The analysis of labor productivity by the present study, and also on the basis of other references indicated that the term "disguised unemployme." is not applicable to Taiwan's case, because to marginal productivity of labor has not fallen to zero or negative level. 6. Similar to other developed and developing countries, Taiwan's agricultural labor supply will be gradually declined during the caurse of economic development following the increasing demand for labor force in industrial sectors. Consequently, the underempolyment problem was expected to be disappeared in the future, if the economy grows persistently. 7. Taking consideration the monthly difference in labor requirement, it was estimated to be necessary to reserve about 20% of the total labor supply for meeting the requirement in peak labor season. It followed that the amount of labor surplus represented only 15% of the total available supply. It is clear, then, that the labor surplus problem in Taiwan is not a problem of disguised unemployment, but a problem of structural surplus. |
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