THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN JOB INHERITORS AND NON-INHERITORS IN JAPAN
Atsushi SANNABE[1]
Summary：
In this paper, I have set my objective to empirically demonstrate that two bipolarizations are occurring in the Japanese labor market, using SSM data from 1955 to 2005 (National Survey on Social Strata and Social Mobility), as well as JGSS data from 2000 to 2010 (Japanese General Social Survey). The first bipolarization is the occurrence of income disparities between those who inherit their parents’ occupations and those who do not. The other bipolarization indicates, even within occupational cohorts in which the rate of inheriting the occupation of one’s parent is high, income disparities exist between groups that inherit labor-intensive occupations versus groups that inherit capital-intensive and highly specialized occupations.
KEY WORDS :
job inheritance, intergenerational occupational transfer, intergenerational income transfer
[1] Doctoral Institute for Evidence Based Policy, Inc. Director.
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