We estimate intergenerational income mobility in Taiwan, employing repeated cross-sectional data. We find that the father-son, father-daughter,mother-son and mother-daughter income elasticitiesat- 40 are around 0.18, 0.23, 0.50 and 0.54, respectively. Moreover, the mother-child income elasticity...

This paper investigates the effects of employment protection legislation on the rates of hiring, separation, worker flows, job reallocation, and churning flows for the case of Taiwan. Our empirical identification takes advantage of a reform created by Taiwan’s enactment of Labor Standards Law,...

This paper investigates the impacts of national health insurance on the labor market, by considering the case of Taiwan, which implemented national health insurance in March 1995. Taiwan’s national health insurance is financed by premiums, which are proportional to an employee’s salary....