Abstract

The convergence of an aging society, knowledge economy, and professional labor mobility introduces issues for education. Societies are approaching a norm of social politics organized around flexible labor markets and structural exclusion which alters the access to social inclusion through education and employment. The analysis of national education and employment policy is important in the context of a contemporary crisis of capital. The local communities, Taiwan accommodates global capital by deregulating and opening up its markets, takes active interest in the competition for the best brains, and develops a cosmopolitan outlook. The author addresses the rescaling processes affecting Taiwan in which youth are settling. The aim of this paper is to examine some key aspects of social change in Taiwan, which has undergone significant changes in its occupational structure, labor market, economy, and educational provision since the 1980s. The material of the paper draws on three levels. The first deals with the structural and institutional transformations, and some key aspects in its political economy, labor market and education. The second is concerned with occupational and social mobility patterns and trends, and their association with the changing role of education. Finally, this paper explores the experiences of youth to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural factors that impinge on school-to-work and social mobility outcomes.

Highlights

  • Globalization produces a reconfiguration of the mobility of capital

  • The growing competition has led to a drastic increase in labour market risks, and has significant consequences for the life courses and employment trajectories of individuals, above all for young people

  • Young people face a world of work filled with uncertainties in the context of intensifying global competition and contractual flexibility

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Introduction

The increasing mobility across national borders obliges states to face new kinds of working relations and other changes. The growing competition has led to a drastic increase in labour market risks, and has significant consequences for the life courses and employment trajectories of individuals, above all for young people. Young people face a world of work filled with uncertainties in the context of intensifying global competition and contractual flexibility. They are entering the labour market at a time of flexible labour market regulations that have contributed to an increase in atypical and precarious employment and high job mobility and have turned into a flexible mass. The changing structure of jobs is a critical factor shaping the nature of a country’s path of development and the distribution of opportunities for employment

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