caa a22 4500 467917248 CHVBK 20180406152906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-0210-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-0210-1 The Establishment and Application of a Labor Quality Index: The Case of Taiwan's Manufacturing Industry [Elektronische Daten] [Gee San, Tung-Chun Huang, Li-Hsuan Huang] The labor quality index (LQI) not only serves as an important reference for monitoring the progress of the sustainable development of a country, but it can also serve as an important parameter for economic analysis. To compile such an index for Taiwan, we conducted two large-scale surveys of 1000 major enterprises and 844 union leaders, respectively, to determine the appropriate weights for each key factor. We also searched for all the relevant statistics that were used to calculate the weighted sum of the 25 sub-indexes, in order to compile a LQI for Taiwan's manufacturing industries covering the period from 1990-2000. Our calculations show that this LQI rose from 80.2 in 1990 to 117.5 in 2000, which reflected an impressive 37.3% increase in just one decade. This rate of growth has, however, been slowing down since 1997. Our results indicate that the LQI provides a valuable indicator for monitoring the enhancement of labor quality in this society. Springer, 2006 indicator nationallicence labor quality index nationallicence manufacturing nationallicence Taiwan nationallicence San Gee Graduate Institute of Industrial Economics and the Department of Economics, National Central University, #300 Chung-Ta Road, 32054, Chung-Li City, Taiwan aut Huang Tung-Chun Graduate Institute of Human Resource Management, National Central University, #300 Chung-Ta Road, 32054, Chung-Li City, Taiwan aut Huang Li-Hsuan Department of Economics, National Central University, #300 Chung-Ta Road, 32054, Chung-Li City, Taiwan aut Social Indicators Research Springer Netherlands 79/1(2006-10-01), 61-96 0303-8300 79:1<61 2006 79 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-0210-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-0210-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- San Gee Graduate Institute of Industrial Economics and the Department of Economics, National Central University, #300 Chung-Ta Road, 32054, Chung-Li City, Taiwan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Huang Tung-Chun Graduate Institute of Human Resource Management, National Central University, #300 Chung-Ta Road, 32054, Chung-Li City, Taiwan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Huang Li-Hsuan Department of Economics, National Central University, #300 Chung-Ta Road, 32054, Chung-Li City, Taiwan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Springer Netherlands 79/1(2006-10-01), 61-96 0303-8300 79:1<61 2006 79 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer