The Council for Economic Planning and Development has predicted, however, that Taiwan's admission to the WTO will put some 20,000 persons out of work during the first year due to the need for industrial restructuring, causing a 0.22 % uptick in the unemployment rate. An increasingly broad range of people will be feeling the pain, too; in addition to blue-collar occupations, highly educated white-collar workers will also take a hit.
同時，經建會也預測，台灣入世的第一年，由於產業結構調整，失業人口將增加兩萬人，失業率將上升百分之○・二二，失業層面也將由基層勞力市場擴大至高學歷的白領階級。