China's Skilled Labor on the Move: How Taiwan Businesses Mobilize Ethnic Resources in Asia

This paper discusses how Taiwanese overseas investment creates an ethnic Chinese skilled labor market in Asia. Low costs, no language barrier, and the cultural “lived Taiwan experience” are the benefits. Through three different channels–internal corporate transfer, social networks, and placement age...

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Published in:Asian survey 2008-03, Vol.48 (2), p.265-281
Main Author: Wang, Hong-zen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business structures
Capital investments
Chinese culture
Cooperation
Emigration
Expatriates
Factories
Financial investments
Foreign investment
Globalization
Human capital
Human resources
Interlocking directorates
Interviews
Investment companies
Investors
Labor
Labor Market
Manual workers
Migration
Peoples Republic of China
Skilled labor
Skilled workers
Skills
Social networking
Social networks
Staffing
Taiwan
Textiles
Trends
Vietnam
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Summary:This paper discusses how Taiwanese overseas investment creates an ethnic Chinese skilled labor market in Asia. Low costs, no language barrier, and the cultural “lived Taiwan experience” are the benefits. Through three different channels–internal corporate transfer, social networks, and placement agencies–skilled labor from the People's Republic is mobilized to work overseas.
ISSN:0004-4687
1533-838X
DOI:10.1525/as.2008.48.2.265