研究期間：10108~10207;The differential between real wages and economic growth and labor productivity in Taiwan has shown an increasing tendency ever since 1990s.The growth rate of real wages even turned to be negative four times after the year of 2000. In addition, the changing rate of real wages was declining much faster than that of economic growth during the financial crisis. Nevertheless, the ratio of nonwage payments to total labor cost in Taiwan is in general increasing during the same time periods, for instance, the increasing rate of the weights of nonwage payment was as high as 3.52% during the economic crisis. It is to say that the labor cost related to labor regulations has been increasing while the real wages tends to be stagnant over the past twenty years in Taiwan. Furthermore, it is also observed that the above tendencies differ much from that of the South Korea whose economic development is quite similar to that of Taiwan. As such, it is wondering first why the real wages have become so different than it was twenty years ago? Second, how would the nonwage payments affect the growth of the real wages in Taiwan? In the proposal, the first year research aims to investigate the time series of real wages, economic growth and labor productivity by analyzing the long term relationship between the real product wages and real consumption wages and marginal productivity. The determination of real wage growth will also be focused for realizing the causes of Taiwan workers’ declining ability of sharing the outcomes of economic growth. In the second year research, the perfect competition assumptions will be relaxed both in the product and labor markets, aiming to investigate the plausible changes in the wage bargaining power between workers and employers. Besides, in this proposal, in addition to the case of Taiwan, South Korea will also be studied, which provides the basis for international comparison.
