The impact of social status on vocational selection

• Main Authors: WANG,BO-MIN, 王柏閔
• Other Authors: LU,CHIA-HUI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80606021111619524895

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 經濟學系 === 104 === This thesis mainly discusses the impact of social status on vocational selection and economic variables. Theoretically, there are two conclusions, first, when people raise the degree of importance of social status, more people will select higher social status vocation and fewer people will select lower social status vocation, resulting in inefficient allocation of labor. Then, the level of capital、output、consumption and lifetime utility will cut back. Second, the government may choose to subsidize the labor of lower social status vocation to improve the economy. In addition, there are two conclusions from the numerical analysis, first, when the production share of higher social status vocation increases, more people will select higher social status vocation and fewer people will select lower social status vocation, resulting in inefficient allocation of labor. Then, the level of capital、output、consumption and lifetime utility will cut back. Second, when the production share of lower social status vocation increases, fewer people will select higher social status vocation. But increased production share of lower social status vocation will decrease the capital share, leading to a reduction of capital. Then, the level of output、consumption and lifetime utility will indirectly decrease.