These days, if you want a job, you not only have to beat out competitors in your own country, but in China, Southeast Asia and even India as well. As a result, wages are tending to equalize downward. When businesses can hire cheap labor in Vietnam, they have little interest in hiring Taiwanese workers of roughly the same level of skill at much higher cost.
換句話說，要找工作，不只得打敗國內的競爭對手，還必須贏過中國、東南亞，甚至印度的年輕人；「薪資向低處拉平」則是另一個負面影響，當企業主能以低薪在越南找到人力時，就不會願意以高出數倍的薪資，在台灣聘請技術等級差不多的人才。