@article{oai:stars.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008975,
 author = {西野, 真由 and 大島, 一二 and NISHINO, Mayu and OSHIMA, Kazutsugu},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {桃山学院大学経済経営論集, ST.ANDREW'S UNIVERSITY ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS REVIEW},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {Taiwan has been accepting foreign labor forces since early 1990’s.
Studies related to foreign workers in Taiwan so far are mainly analyzing
history of acceptance, current state and background of the accepting
system, changes in the number of workers, and influences on Taiwanese
workers and the industrial structure there. Meanwhile, recent studies have
not accumulated enough data to clarify the actual state of foreign
employment and companies accepting them. Considering the fact that
Taiwan has many similar problems to what Japan has now such as a
declining birthrate and an aging population, the author infers that beneficial
suggestions can be gained from the case in this study to consider changes
to Japanese policy for accepting foreign workers in the future.
In this study, it examined the actual state of accepting foreign workers
for unskilled labor in Taiwan by using various statistical data and the
result of the field research at a Japanese company A in Taiwan, while
focusing on an outline of foreign workers for unskilled labor in Taiwan,
background for accepting them by companies, their employment situations,
and processes for them getting employed.
From the result of this study, it is evident that the number of foreign
workers for unskilled labor has been rapidly increasing in Taiwan since the
1990’s to supply serious labor shortages, mainly in the construction
industry, the manufacturing industry and the service industry. Japanese
companies there are not exceptions and it is inevitable that company A,
the research object, has to accept foreign workers to continue their
production. It has been revealed that these foreign workers are considered
to be an important labor force to solve the severe labor shortage problem
rather than an inexpensive labor force because a wage level for these
workers is not much different from Taiwanese workers in a same industry.
While expecting that dependency on foreign workers for unskilled labor
will continue to increase in Taiwan, it isn’t certain if enough workers will
be found as had previously been the case. Whether or not Taiwan will be
chosen as a destination country for emigration is a subject for future
examination, with changes of economic circumstances in countries, mostly
in Southeast Asia where countries send out workers, or with changes of
policies for accepting foreign workers for unskilled labor in countries
where there is a short fall in the labor force such as South Korea.
The number of foreign workers in Japan has been increasing due to
similar problems such as a declining birthrate, an aging population and a
labor shortage as previously mentioned. In Japan, however, it is not
permitted to accept foreign workers for unskilled labor and as a result the
number of international students or technical interns is increasing since
this is a mechanism being used to bypass this current restriction. This gap
between the principle and the reality causes various problems particularly
over technical interns. A labor shortage is not a peculiar problem only to
Japan, as examined in this study, Taiwan has been short of unskilled
laborers for a long period of time. In conclusion, Japanese government,
companies, employers, and communities will have to be together as one
and work immediately on creating a new system, preparing an appropriate
framework for accepting and supporting foreign workers to be chosen
continuously on a long-term basis as a destination country to emigrate to,
while a scramble for unskilled labor among Taiwan, Japan and South Korea
is becoming more obvious.},
 pages = {63--78},
 title = {台湾における外国人単純労働者受け入れの実態 : 日系企業Ａ社の事例より},
 volume = {60},
 year = {2018},
 yomi = {ニシノ, マユ and オオシマ, カズツグ}
}