The unemployment rates were rising in the context of global economy depression, industrial structure changing and labor market flexibility in the last several years in Taiwan, bringing forth the unemployed falling into the severe living of no income during the periods of unemployment and social instability. The government implemented “Employment Insurance Act” in 2003 for solving the issues. The Employment Insurance Act provides comprehensive unemployment insurance and employment protection, besides, promoting the unemployed re-entering labor market and avoiding of no sources of income relying on unemployment benefit excessively in the context of activation policy.
From the Schomann’s unemployment insurance indicators and the Hasselpflug’s unemployment identification indicators, comparing with the unemployment identification institutions in Taiwan. The main findings show that the strict unemployment identification institutions leading to overloading of unemployed in the process of applying for unemployment benefits in Taiwan.
Besides, the author interview the unemployed, employers and public employment service staffs to better understand on the problems in the implementation unemployment of the unemployment identification institutions in the Employment Insurance Act. The results show that the unemployment identification institutions bringing forth the unemployed fall into the imbalanced situation between rights and obligations that overloading obligations more than rights in the process of applying for unemployment benefits in Taiwan. Finally, there are concrete suggestions about the Employment Insurance Act for improving the problems of the imbalanced situation between rights and obligations.
