The last two decades have seen major changes in the married women’s employment reentry pattern. Using the data “Survey of Women's Marriage, Fertility and Employment in Taiwan” conducted by DGBAS, this research examined the changes of labor force reentry between 1993 and 2000 of women who had ever quitted job because of marriage or childbirth.
Findings show that women still exit the labor force market for family reasons, however more and more women reentry and seem to have spent a shorter interruption time than past. Rising labor force participation rates of women with under-6-year-old children and shorter employment interruptions mean that the linkage between work and family has changed gradually among young married women.
The analysis of 50 couple depth-interviews conducted in 1995 illustrated at the last section points out factors facilitating married women’s employment reentry. The importance of greater personal human capital resource, family economic needs and the development of kindergarten system in Taiwan positively affects young women’s reentry and shorter interruptions. The paper concludes the need to focus on the work-family interface is greater than ever.

Drawing on J. Wolpert’s stress-threshold notion, Speare and his associates have proposed a mobility decision-making model in which residential satisfaction serves as a mediating variable between background characteristics and mobility propensity and behavior. Several studies have employed this residential satisfaction model to further examine mobility desire, expectation, adjustment, and behavior. There is no consensus, however, about the intervening role of residential satisfaction in the mobility decision-making process. With respect to background variables, few have taken into account the influence of sentiment or emotional attachment on mobility decision making. This study attempts to examine the intervening effect of residential satisfaction on mobility propensity in Taiwan by using an island-wide sample. The following research questions are addressed: (1) To what extent and how does residential satisfaction mediate the effects of background characteristics on mobility propensity? (2) To what extent does the residential satisfaction model need to take emotional attachment into account?
The data for this study are drawn from a larger project titled “Image of Urban Life, Residential Environment and Residential Selection”. A total of 4,379 complete questionnaires were obtained for analysis. Ordinal and binomial logistic regressions were employed to estimate the residential satisfaction models. Results of this study indicate that residential satisfaction and emotional attachment are strong predictors of mobility propensity. The intervening role of residential satisfaction, however, was not fully supported. The individual/household characteristics of age, marital status, presence of children, educational level, and household income were found to have significant direct associationwith mobility propensity. These results are summarized and discussed below.

The decision-making process of residential mobility of migrants reflects housing preferences and adaptation. This research examines the initial location and re-location factors of recent Taiwanese immigrants in Australia, their decision-making process and mechanism affecting their moves. Using a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews of seventynine immigrants were carried out in the three major cities of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The results from this study show that Sydney was selected because of more opportunities for business, Brisbane for the good weather, and Melbourne for the education of their children. The concentration in each city is based on the three elements of ‘needs’, ‘capital’ and ‘time’ and the interaction of these elements leads to diversification and individual differences in the factors of residential choice. Moreover, the concentration in the suburbs is largely decided by the need to locate in close proximity to their family and friends who form earlier Taiwanese communities. Over time, their residential pattern results from complex decision processes across time and space, differing from international migrants of the past. In spite of being distributed widely in large cities, they are closely related through their social network. They work hard to manage their new lives, while doing their best in contributing to Australian society and their Taiwanese homeland at the same time.

Using data from the “Women’s Marriage, Fertility and Employment Survey”, this paper explores the transitional patterns of female employment after World War Ⅱ in Taiwan. Results show that the patterns of female labor force participation have been quite stable. There is no significant change in conventional and interrupted employment patterns, while continuous participation in the labor force decreased in the past twenty years. That means married women in the present still value family more than work. Seeking employment before getting married is a must done affair and once a family is formed, personal career could be given up, or at least given up for a period. Regarding the impact of life courses on female employment, the major change is found within the category of interrupted employment, in which married women quit from the labor market later and re-entry earlier. The duration of employment interruption for married women is shortening.

The 2000 Population and Housing Census has included mailing address of each household in the questionnaire. The corresponding geocoding systems have been built in six major cities of Taiwan according to the National Geographic Information System implementation plan. The integration of mailing address with geo-coding system provides great benefit to the census data. This study employs address match and spatial allocation functionalities in GIS to conduct supply-demand evaluation on disability and long-term care facilities. The results demonstrate great potential usages of the 2000 Census data.