Several factors or forces stimulated the present study. First the international migration between Taiwan and other - Asia countries and areas increased and the implication of the migration to economic, social and political interactions between Taiwan and these other countries and areas expanded. Second, the status of study on typology and change is important in the academic field. Third, there were good concepts of migration patterns and good theories of migration changes in previous studies. Fourth, studies in the same area in Taiwan are lacking.
Major objectives or contents of this study include. (1) to identify types of net -migration between Taiwan and other Asia countries and areas, and (2) to analyze changes of the net -migration types. Several specific types. and changes are identified on the basis of several important migration indicators, e.g. migration direction. number of net migrants, and compositions of net migrants.
Available data were collected from Entrance and Exit Bureau of Interior Ministry and Police Department of Interior Ministry. Study period covers 1989 through 1998.
In the final part of the paper suggestions for Improving qualities of original data and effective ways for applying the study results for social economic betterment, political improvement and academic development have been proposed.

This study is aimed at investigating the relationship between the increase of age and life satisfaction. It analyzes the longitudinal survey data conducted by Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning in 1989 and 1993. The analytical results show that there is a negative relationship between age and life satisfaction when correlates are not controlled. Once the correlates including major life cycle events are controlled, the elderly aged 70 or above feel more satisfied than the elderly aged 60-64. Of the correlates, decrease of income is most influential. It is followed by level of social activities, living arrangement, and worsening of health condition.

Due to the limitations of data, most poverty researches in the past used cross-sectional data. This was despite the disputes on the nature and dynamics of poverty. Furthermore, the fact that poverty rates remained rather stable over time led many researchers to conclude that poverty was a long term phenomenon. This misconception began to change once the longitudinal panel data became available. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the poverty dynamics using panel data from poverty households in Chia-Yi county during the 1988-1996 period.
The results of our analyses indicate that the median number of years for our sample to remain in poverty was 4.55 years and the probability of leavig poverty decreased as the length of time staying in poverty increased. This was not due to the difficulty of leaving poverty per se. Rather, it was due to the fact that those who were more able to leave poverty actually left earlier and those who could not leave remained in poverty. Among the factors that affect the length of staying in poverty were age (of the heads of households), number of years of schooling, whether single-heads households, and the number of household members with the ability to work. Those heads of households who were older who left poverty earlier than their younger counterparts could be due to the earlier death of the former than the latter. Those with better education were also those who were more likely to obtain necessary resources to leave poverty. Two major differences between this study and those from foreign nations were found. First, in Taiwan, single-headed households tend to be able to leave poverty sooner than their foreign counterparts. Second, as the number of household members with the ability to work increased, the probability of leaving poverty also inceased more so in Taiwan than their foreign counterparts.

This research examined the timing of job reentry for married women who had ever quitted from job market due to marriage or birth. Using 1983 and 1993 waves of Fertility and Employment of Married Women Survey conducted by DGBAS, the author converted the retrospective information in the survey into women’s work histories. This paper reported that these women were more likely to reenter job market in the third and the tenth years after quitting than any other time. The peaks of the curve were of particular prominence in 1993 sample and for the birth-quitting women. By employing the Cox Model, the author further analyzed the factors that might be used to interpret the event of job reentry while censoring was taken into account. Both models of marriage-quitting and of birth-quitting commonly revealed that age and spouse’s schooling were negatively related to the job reentry. Childcare was another factor that negatively affected the job reentry for birth-quitting women in both survey years. Besides, schooling was getting important in 1993 when compared with that in 1983.

Labor shortage exists in primary industries, it is also a typical problem in fishery industry. The government lifted the Martial law in 1987; employers begin to seek remedy in recruiting Mainland crews. The main reason are of the same race and language, thus ease of communication, and the nature of fishery works are off-land and more acceptable by the government. For in-shore fishery industry, employers have recruited Mainland crew and build hotels on sea within 12 miles. Recently, crime and safety concerns requiring proper accommodations for crew’s management. There is an urgency to address crew hiring and management in both political and economical aspects. Employing mainland crews is related to the National Security Law and Law of People Relationship across Strait, and has influences on economic and social safety to some degree. This study evaluates the economical impacts of employing Mainland crew from the aspects of fishery industry, social welfare, and national safety. In addition, address resolution of employment and setting relative management policies.