Although the current labor shortage in Taiwan was not caused by the falling birth rate, many people are concerned that the future change in the population structure will be, as the Chinese saying has it, "a layer of frost on top of the snow," and could even lead to economic collapse.
目前台灣勞力缺乏雖非人口生育率減低造成，但不少人擔心，未來人口結構改變，會對勞力缺乏雪上加霜，甚至導致經濟衰退。