Issues of Employment

• Year 2007
  • Taiwan's 2007 economic growth expected to hit 4.58%: DGBAS (August 29)
  • Jobless rate hits 6-year low: DGBAS (June 27)

• Year 2006
  • Government jobs being outsourced more frequently (July 31)
  • Jobless rate edged down to 3.87% in March (April 27)
  • Many graduates found pessimistic about finding jobs (April 20)
  • Job market facing structural change (April 4)
  • February jobless rate has first rise in six months (March 31)
  • As Taiwan's employment grows, structural unemployment remains a problem (March 31)
  • Taiwan's jobless rate hit new low of 3.8% in January (March 3)
  • Examination Yuan outlines plan to end preferential interest rate (January 13)

• Year 2005
  • Civil-service Internet job postings to be consolidated in January (December 16)
  • Government urged to provide more jobs for the disadvantaged (July 13)

• Year 2003
  • Grads not serious about work: survey (June 28)
  • Youth mimic "freeter" Japanese (June 22)
  • Graduates face an uphill battle in the hunt for jobs (June 16)
  • Germans to help with dual-track training program (June 9)