An Empirical Study of Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty from the Perspective of Income Mobility  

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Sato, Yoshimichi ; Yoshida, Takashi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 5 no. 4 (2008), page 95-112.
Topik: Intergenerational Transmission; Poverty; Income Mobility; Japan

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ134.6 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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"A person born into a deprived family is unable to obtain a proper education due to poverty, and consequently cannot find a good job and so earns a low income. This is how poverty is transmitted." In contemporary Japan, where growing disparities in society are generating significant interest in the mass media, this is exactly the kind of statement that the media tends to seize upon. However, a variety of difficulties hinder any empirical analysis of such an intergenerational transmission of poverty. Firstly, as we shall see later, it is almost impossible to measure the income of the individual's family of origin. And secondly, an excessive focus on the intergeneartional transmission of poverty means that intergenerational transmission in other classes may end up being overlooked. Unless an accurate picture of intergenerational mobility in all income classes in Japan can be obtained, the transmission of poverty cannot be properly understood.

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