Ming-Chang Tsai
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3675607 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ming-Chang Tsai |
| PRENOMES | Ming-Chang |
| SOBRENOME | Tsai |
| ASSINATURA | TSAI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National Taipei University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Journey to Adulthood
Relative Economic Position and Female Marriage Migration
How Does the Young Generation Become More Cosmopolitan? Evidence from Taiwan
This study investigates younger people’s perceptions of the influences of globalization by testing two hypotheses about the effects of educational socialization and Internet use. The potential influence of cross-border travel for the older population is examined for comparison. Using national samples from two waves of a large survey, we adopt a measure of attitudinal support for cosmopolitan openness. Empirical findings obtained from a mediation …
Improvement in the Mortality-to-Incidence Ratios for Gastric Cancer in Developed Countries With High Health Expenditures
The mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) is widely used to evaluate the efficacy of cancer management outcomes for individual countries. However, the association among health care expenditure, human development index (HDI), and changes in MIR over time (δMIR) remains unknown. We aimed to elucidate the significance between these indicators and gastric cancer outcomes in different countries. Among the regions, Asia had the highest number of new gastr…
Singlehood and childlessness
Taiwan has registered an extremely low fertility rate during the past decades. Against this demographic trend, this study provides empirical evidence from an age-period-cohort analysis of the changing trends in acceptance of childlessness and singlehood during 2005-2020. Challenging the generational replacement hypothesis, the present study shows that the period effect is more consistent and substantial than the modest disparities across generati…
Comorbidities and Outcome of Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis in Taiwan
The prognosis of different etiologies of liver cirrhosis (LC) is not well understood. Previous studies performed on alcoholic LC-dominated cohorts have demonstrated a few conflicting results. We aimed to compare the outcome and the effect of comorbidities on survival between alcoholic and non-alcoholic LC in a viral hepatitis-dominated LC cohort. We identified newly diagnosed alcoholic and non-alcoholic LC patients, aged ≥40 years old, between 20…
Favorable gallbladder cancer mortality-to-incidence ratios of countries with good ranking of world’s health system and high expenditures on health
The MIR variation for gallbladder cancer is therefore associated with the ranking of the health system and the expenditure on health
Intergenerational Exchanges in East Asia
Adult children's financial support for parents, which has been considered a primary representation of filial values in East Asian society, is not sufficient to understand contemporary familial reciprocation. To fully understand the detailed structure of intergenerational exchange in this region, this study proposes a new two-way typology to look at how parents both give and take with adult children. Using the 2006 East Asian Social Survey, the au…
Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia
Relationship Between Physical Qualities and Minutes Played in International Women’s Rugby Sevens
Purpose: To investigate the physical qualities that differentiate playing minutes in international-level women’s rugby sevens players. Methods: Twenty-four national-level female rugby sevens players underwent measurements of anthropometry, acceleration, speed, lower- and upper-body strength, lower-body power, and aerobic fitness. Playing minutes in international competition were used to differentiate players into 2 groups, a high- or low-playing-…
Working Overtime in East Asia
Working long hours has become a routinised part of life in East Asia. The different patterns of overtime across this region are understudied, however. This study represents a first systematic attempt to analyse overtime and its determinants in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China by testing hypotheses that specify the distinctive influences of employment status and job contracts on work hours. Class exploitation, post-industrialism and flexibilit…
Does Financial Assistance Really Assist? The Impact of Debt on Wellbeing, Health Behavior and Self-Concept in Taiwan
Control, Commitment and Contentment in Work
Introduction to the Symposium of Manufacturing (Un)Happiness in East Asia
Beyond Economic Interests
We compare attitudes toward foreign workers between two wealthy Western and four developing East Asian countries, using data from the 2006 and 2008 Asian Barometer surveys to test hypotheses on economic interests, cultural supremacy, and global exposure. Respondent majorities in all six countries expressed high levels of restrictivism. Regression model results indicate a consistent cultural superiority influence across the six countries, but only…
Is the Easy Life Always the Happiest? Examining the Association of Convenience and Well-Being in Taiwan
The Effect of Global Exposure on Attitudes Toward Tradition, Patriotism, and Foreigners
In contemporary globalized world, exposure to ideas, people and goods from other countries increasingly feature daily lives. According to the globality theory, global experience and cross-border networking may influences one's value orientation in a way that an individual avoids seeing national tradition from a judgmental viewpoint but develop acceptant attitudes toward outsiders. The world society (WS) theory suggests educational socialization a…
Global Exposure and Openness
This empirical study investigates the phenomenon of global mobility and networking at a quotidian level. A typology of global experience is constructed to characterize the qualitative distinctions among individuals' involvement in global flows. Derived from our understanding of individual border-crossing mobility and transnational relationships, we propose a system of four contrasts: the 'global exposed,' 'global surfer,' 'networked,' and the 'lo…
Globally Happy
Foreign Brides” Meet Ethnic Politics in Taiwan
A great number of women from China, Vietnam, and Indonesia recently arrived in Taiwan to marry men of lower social strata. Such an unusual pattern of migration has stimulated debates about the status and the citizenship of the new arrivals. This study analyzes Taiwanese responses toward these marriage migrants by using a national survey conducted in 2004. Three aspects of restrictive attitudes were tapped concerning these newcomers: (1) rights to…
If GDP is Not the Answer, What is the Question? The Juncture of Capabilities, Institutions and Measurement in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report
Social Diversity, Institutions and Trust
Socioeconomic Differentials in Global Exposure
Compiling several national survey data collected in Taiwan during 2000–2008, this study examines the differences in individuals' exposure to globalization. The authors conceptualize global exposure in terms of cross-border, transnational network relationships and consumption of global cultural products. The authors explore the effects of socioeconomic differences (education, occupational status, and income) on four dimensions of individual global…
Does globali zation affect human well-being
Economic and Non-economic Determinants of Poverty in Developing Countries
This study conducts cross-national research on 97 developing countries to test competing hypotheses of poverty. Four major theories from the social sciences were examined, including (1) economic development and openness, (2) geographical and demographical disadvantages, (3) regime characteristics and war, and (4) social policy and human capital enhancement, to determine their explanatory power by modelling the ratio of the poor to total populatio…
Does globali zation affect human well-being
Foreign Brides” Meet Ethnic Politics in Taiwan
A great number of women from China, Vietnam, and Indonesia recently arrived in Taiwan to marry men of lower social strata. Such an unusual pattern of migration has stimulated debates about the status and the citizenship of the new arrivals. This study analyzes Taiwanese responses toward these marriage migrants by using a national survey conducted in 2004. Three aspects of restrictive attitudes were tapped concerning these newcomers: (1) rights to…
Social Diversity, Institutions and Trust
Sociable resources and close relationships
This study uses data from a national probability sample in Taiwan to investigate sociable resources' effect on the practices of close relationships with relatives and friends. Results indicate that status-based sociable resources (i.e., education, income and having a job) and assets-based sociable resources (i.e., length of residence and home ownership) facilitate close relationships. While the status-based resources tend to forge close relations…
Working Overtime in East Asia
Working long hours has become a routinised part of life in East Asia. The different patterns of overtime across this region are understudied, however. This study represents a first systematic attempt to analyse overtime and its determinants in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China by testing hypotheses that specify the distinctive influences of employment status and job contracts on work hours. Class exploitation, post-industrialism and flexibilit…
Dependency, the state and class in the neoliberal transition of Taiwan
The remarkable economic growth in Taiwan has served as a model of the developmental state as well as a source of scepticism about neoliberal policy for many less developed countries. However, since the mid-1980s Taiwan has gravitated from its previous statist model to the universally embraced 'market-orientated' restructuring. This study seeks to explain this neoliberal transition. A disaggregated approach is employed to break neoliberalism down …
Globally Happy
Global Exposure and Openness
This empirical study investigates the phenomenon of global mobility and networking at a quotidian level. A typology of global experience is constructed to characterize the qualitative distinctions among individuals' involvement in global flows. Derived from our understanding of individual border-crossing mobility and transnational relationships, we propose a system of four contrasts: the 'global exposed,' 'global surfer,' 'networked,' and the 'lo…
Does Financial Assistance Really Assist? The Impact of Debt on Wellbeing, Health Behavior and Self-Concept in Taiwan
If GDP is Not the Answer, What is the Question? The Juncture of Capabilities, Institutions and Measurement in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report
Macro-Structural Determinants of Political Freedom in Developing Countries
State power, state embeddedness, and national development in less developed countries
Singlehood and childlessness
Taiwan has registered an extremely low fertility rate during the past decades. Against this demographic trend, this study provides empirical evidence from an age-period-cohort analysis of the changing trends in acceptance of childlessness and singlehood during 2005-2020. Challenging the generational replacement hypothesis, the present study shows that the period effect is more consistent and substantial than the modest disparities across generati…
Intergenerational Exchanges in East Asia
Adult children's financial support for parents, which has been considered a primary representation of filial values in East Asian society, is not sufficient to understand contemporary familial reciprocation. To fully understand the detailed structure of intergenerational exchange in this region, this study proposes a new two-way typology to look at how parents both give and take with adult children. Using the 2006 East Asian Social Survey, the au…
Economic and Non-economic Determinants of Poverty in Developing Countries
This study conducts cross-national research on 97 developing countries to test competing hypotheses of poverty. Four major theories from the social sciences were examined, including (1) economic development and openness, (2) geographical and demographical disadvantages, (3) regime characteristics and war, and (4) social policy and human capital enhancement, to determine their explanatory power by modelling the ratio of the poor to total populatio…
Beyond Economic Interests
We compare attitudes toward foreign workers between two wealthy Western and four developing East Asian countries, using data from the 2006 and 2008 Asian Barometer surveys to test hypotheses on economic interests, cultural supremacy, and global exposure. Respondent majorities in all six countries expressed high levels of restrictivism. Regression model results indicate a consistent cultural superiority influence across the six countries, but only…
Is the Easy Life Always the Happiest? Examining the Association of Convenience and Well-Being in Taiwan
Socioeconomic Differentials in Global Exposure
Compiling several national survey data collected in Taiwan during 2000–2008, this study examines the differences in individuals' exposure to globalization. The authors conceptualize global exposure in terms of cross-border, transnational network relationships and consumption of global cultural products. The authors explore the effects of socioeconomic differences (education, occupational status, and income) on four dimensions of individual global…
Control, Commitment and Contentment in Work
The Effect of Global Exposure on Attitudes Toward Tradition, Patriotism, and Foreigners
In contemporary globalized world, exposure to ideas, people and goods from other countries increasingly feature daily lives. According to the globality theory, global experience and cross-border networking may influences one's value orientation in a way that an individual avoids seeing national tradition from a judgmental viewpoint but develop acceptant attitudes toward outsiders. The world society (WS) theory suggests educational socialization a…
Taming a Leviathan
The current debate on Taiwan's development has been dominated by the statist perspective that identifies state power as a key to its growth miracle. The paper challenges this statist idea. By analyzing the evolving process of the developmental state from a predatory government in the 1950s and early 1960s, we argue that the imposing of constraints on the despotic power of the state constitutes a key mechanism by which a balanced power structure b…
The State's Interest Seeking and Economic Stagnation in the Third World
In the development literature, the state's interest seeking is considered a crucial determinant of economic stagnation in the Third World. The internality inefficiency, opportunity costs, and structural disincentives generated by such a state constitute the key mechanisms responsible for slow growth. This study provides a major quantitative test of this hypothesis. A sectoral approach is proposed to measure the interest seeking of the state by us…
The State's Interest Seeking and Economic Stagnation in the Third World
In the development literature, the state's interest seeking is considered a crucial determinant of economic stagnation in the Third World. The internality inefficiency, opportunity costs, and structural disincentives generated by such a state constitute the key mechanisms responsible for slow growth. This study provides a major quantitative test of this hypothesis. A sectoral approach is proposed to measure the interest seeking of the state by us…
State power, state embeddedness, and national development in less developed countries
Dependency, the state and class in the neoliberal transition of Taiwan
The remarkable economic growth in Taiwan has served as a model of the developmental state as well as a source of scepticism about neoliberal policy for many less developed countries. However, since the mid-1980s Taiwan has gravitated from its previous statist model to the universally embraced 'market-orientated' restructuring. This study seeks to explain this neoliberal transition. A disaggregated approach is employed to break neoliberalism down …
Taming a Leviathan
The current debate on Taiwan's development has been dominated by the statist perspective that identifies state power as a key to its growth miracle. The paper challenges this statist idea. By analyzing the evolving process of the developmental state from a predatory government in the 1950s and early 1960s, we argue that the imposing of constraints on the despotic power of the state constitutes a key mechanism by which a balanced power structure b…
Economic and Non-economic Determinants of Poverty in Developing Countries
This study conducts cross-national research on 97 developing countries to test competing hypotheses of poverty. Four major theories from the social sciences were examined, including (1) economic development and openness, (2) geographical and demographical disadvantages, (3) regime characteristics and war, and (4) social policy and human capital enhancement, to determine their explanatory power by modelling the ratio of the poor to total populatio…
Sociable resources and close relationships
This study uses data from a national probability sample in Taiwan to investigate sociable resources' effect on the practices of close relationships with relatives and friends. Results indicate that status-based sociable resources (i.e., education, income and having a job) and assets-based sociable resources (i.e., length of residence and home ownership) facilitate close relationships. While the status-based resources tend to forge close relations…
Macro-Structural Determinants of Political Freedom in Developing Countries
Does globali zation affect human well-being
Socioeconomic Differentials in Global Exposure
Compiling several national survey data collected in Taiwan during 2000–2008, this study examines the differences in individuals' exposure to globalization. The authors conceptualize global exposure in terms of cross-border, transnational network relationships and consumption of global cultural products. The authors explore the effects of socioeconomic differences (education, occupational status, and income) on four dimensions of individual global…
Foreign Brides” Meet Ethnic Politics in Taiwan
A great number of women from China, Vietnam, and Indonesia recently arrived in Taiwan to marry men of lower social strata. Such an unusual pattern of migration has stimulated debates about the status and the citizenship of the new arrivals. This study analyzes Taiwanese responses toward these marriage migrants by using a national survey conducted in 2004. Three aspects of restrictive attitudes were tapped concerning these newcomers: (1) rights to…
If GDP is Not the Answer, What is the Question? The Juncture of Capabilities, Institutions and Measurement in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report
Social Diversity, Institutions and Trust
Globally Happy
The Effect of Global Exposure on Attitudes Toward Tradition, Patriotism, and Foreigners
In contemporary globalized world, exposure to ideas, people and goods from other countries increasingly feature daily lives. According to the globality theory, global experience and cross-border networking may influences one's value orientation in a way that an individual avoids seeing national tradition from a judgmental viewpoint but develop acceptant attitudes toward outsiders. The world society (WS) theory suggests educational socialization a…
Global Exposure and Openness
This empirical study investigates the phenomenon of global mobility and networking at a quotidian level. A typology of global experience is constructed to characterize the qualitative distinctions among individuals' involvement in global flows. Derived from our understanding of individual border-crossing mobility and transnational relationships, we propose a system of four contrasts: the 'global exposed,' 'global surfer,' 'networked,' and the 'lo…
Introduction to the Symposium of Manufacturing (Un)Happiness in East Asia
Beyond Economic Interests
We compare attitudes toward foreign workers between two wealthy Western and four developing East Asian countries, using data from the 2006 and 2008 Asian Barometer surveys to test hypotheses on economic interests, cultural supremacy, and global exposure. Respondent majorities in all six countries expressed high levels of restrictivism. Regression model results indicate a consistent cultural superiority influence across the six countries, but only…
Is the Easy Life Always the Happiest? Examining the Association of Convenience and Well-Being in Taiwan
Control, Commitment and Contentment in Work
Relationship Between Physical Qualities and Minutes Played in International Women’s Rugby Sevens
Purpose: To investigate the physical qualities that differentiate playing minutes in international-level women’s rugby sevens players. Methods: Twenty-four national-level female rugby sevens players underwent measurements of anthropometry, acceleration, speed, lower- and upper-body strength, lower-body power, and aerobic fitness. Playing minutes in international competition were used to differentiate players into 2 groups, a high- or low-playing-…
Working Overtime in East Asia
Working long hours has become a routinised part of life in East Asia. The different patterns of overtime across this region are understudied, however. This study represents a first systematic attempt to analyse overtime and its determinants in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China by testing hypotheses that specify the distinctive influences of employment status and job contracts on work hours. Class exploitation, post-industrialism and flexibilit…
Does Financial Assistance Really Assist? The Impact of Debt on Wellbeing, Health Behavior and Self-Concept in Taiwan
Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia
Favorable gallbladder cancer mortality-to-incidence ratios of countries with good ranking of world’s health system and high expenditures on health
The MIR variation for gallbladder cancer is therefore associated with the ranking of the health system and the expenditure on health
Intergenerational Exchanges in East Asia
Adult children's financial support for parents, which has been considered a primary representation of filial values in East Asian society, is not sufficient to understand contemporary familial reciprocation. To fully understand the detailed structure of intergenerational exchange in this region, this study proposes a new two-way typology to look at how parents both give and take with adult children. Using the 2006 East Asian Social Survey, the au…
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