目前臺灣女性平均工資遠低於男性，約只佔其百分六十五。社會一般認為此現象主要是由勞動市場歧視(Labor Market Discrimination) 所造成，不過我們卻發現在決定工資的重要經濟變數中，男女的終身勞動參與有非常大的差異，而此差異很可能才是男女工資的主因。在假設一個人的預期終身勞動參與

(Expected lifetime Labor Force Participation) ，人力投資和工資收入三者之間存在密切的關係之下，本文利用人力資本理論(Human Capital Theory)證明了一個追求終身所得現值最大化的個人，其人力資本投資與教育職業選擇取決於他的預期終身勞動參與庀度；另外，本文也從實證上發現當婦女真的離開勞動市場時，離開期間將與工資萎縮率(Atrophy Rate)成正比；受教育程度在國中以下的婦女們，其離開勞動市場一年，不考慮預期因素的工資損失率為0.4%；受高中、高職教育者的每年工資損失率為3.7%；而受大專以上教育的婦女們則為3.8%。總之，本文的目地在證明間斷性勞動參與(Intermittent Labor Paticipation) 乃是造成女性工資偏低的主因。

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