부산대학교 도서관

For this study of the social impact of the global economic crisis on the formal sector in Vietnam, interviews were carried out with four enterprises and 23 workers at industrial parks near Ha Noi. Four key findings have been extrapolated: businesses have been trying to retain some production and skilled workforce despite lack of orders by a variety of strategies; nonetheless there has been huge unemployment; those still employed have reduced income and raised living costs; workers are responding to this by: accepting lower-paid jobs, waiting for more vacancies on the industrial parks, studying, or returning to their home towns; loss of remittances for education is impacting workers and their families, but the impact of home areas is otherwise low or unknown.