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Social mobility in contemporary Japan

educational credentials, class and the labour market in a cross-national perspective

By Hiroshi Ishida

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Publish Date

1993

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Language

eng

Pages

310

Description:

The book is a study of intergenerational class mobility and the process of socioeconomic status attainment in contemporary Japan. The idea of "Japan as an educational credential society" has been debated for a long time in Japan. The book empirically evaluates this idea within the framework of a cross-national comparison with the United States and Britain. The author also examines the patterns of class mobility in Japan within a cross-national perspective and reports similarities and differences in the mobility patterns among the three societies.