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Taiwan Jobs Sucked to China by Failure to Mimic Singapore Economic Model

A decade ago, Wu Wen-nan earned $726 a month at a Taiwan factory run by Foxconn Technology Group, maker of Apple Inc.’s iPhones and iPads. Today, he peddles magazines and takes handouts from a charity.

“I lost my job after the company moved production lines to China,” said Wu, 47, as he sold copies of “Big Issue” magazine by a Taipei subway stop. Homeless for much of the past year, he’s been unemployed since losing his Foxconn job 10 years ago. “I don’t have the skills needed for the big change.”

Wu belongs to a generation of Taiwanese who relied on the island’s success as a manufacturing center, from clothing and Mattel Inc.’s Barbie dolls in the 1960s to computers and HTC Corp. (2498) mobile phones in the past three decades. Policy makers’ slowness in easing investment rules and boosting finance, transport and tourism has hampered the creation of new jobs and restrained income growth.

As warmer ties with former civil-war foe China encourage an exodus of factories to the lower-cost mainland, Taiwan’s failure to develop new growth industries has caused it to fall behind Singapore and Hong Kong. That has bolstered opposition claims that the economic embrace with China championed by President Ma Ying-jeou has hurt workers. He is running neck-and-neck with opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen ahead of the January election.

“Taiwan has done too little, too late,” said Chu Wan-wen, a research fellow in Taipei at government-funded institute Academia Sinica and author of “Globalization and the Taiwan Economy.” “Taiwan’s competence in the service sector is quite limited because it opened up the sector too late.”

The risks have partly been masked by a rebound in exports since the 2009 global recession, including a surge in shipments to the mainland that helped stimulate one of the world’s fastest expansions last year. Overseas sales are equal to more than two- thirds of the economy of Taiwan, home to the world’s biggest contract makers of semiconductors and laptop computers.

While electronics manufacturers including HTC and Foxconn benefit from producing at a lower cost on the mainland and reaching the Chinese market, Taiwanese companies tied to the domestic market, such as retailer Uni-President Enterprises Corp. (1216) , have reported smaller sales gains.

Uni-President, Taiwan’s biggest food supplier based in Tainan, posted 18 percent revenue growth in 2010. By contrast, Foxconn’s flagship company, Taipei-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., had a 53 percent sales increase.

MBA Singapore ? Career & Employment Trend 2010 | Careers Employment

The principal objective of the MBA was to introduce students to the various core aspect of business management such as accounting, advertising, human resources, operations management and corporate laws etc to equip managers with the correct skill sets to management efficiently. Students too tend to decide on the Executive Master Programs based on the employment prospects because most are embarking on the program as a career pad/ launch pad for their professional success. Across the Asia Pacific region, year-over-year forecasts boost in each and every of the eight countries and territories surveyed, with forecasts improving from three months ago in six. The Manpower data shows employers in 31 of 36 countries and territories anticipate positive hiring activity in the third quarter, although those in four report negative hiring expectations—an improvement in comparison to the 13 European countries reporting negative outlooks 12 months ago. Globally, the strongest job prospects are reported by employers in India, Brazil, Taiwan, China, Peru, Australia and Singapore. In the course of the recent economic recession, even so, the employment scenario was grim, when the number of employers contemplating downsizing exceeded the number of employers willing to hire. But the situation seems to have changed considering that then for the aspiring managers. The recent employment study conducted by the Singapore arm of global human resource consultancy firm Manpower Inc. has shown positive adjustments in the employment situation.  The report published by Manpower Inc. shows that for the very first time since the recession has struck Singapore’s economy, the employment situation of the country has excelled all the other 35 countries, where the study was conducted, but India. There is a significant 26% rise in the employment situation in the initial quarter of 2010. The employers are expecting the positive trend to continue in the following quarters of the year as properly.  

Singapore Employment Outlook 2010 The most recent official data estimates total employment here to have risen by 15,400 jobs in the third quarter, ending losses in the initial and second quarters of this year. Employers in Singapore report healthy hiring intentions in Quarter 2 2010. With 28% of employers forecasting an boost in headcount, four% predicting a decrease and 67% expecting no alter, the Net Employment Outlook is an optimistic +24%.

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