evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) in the USA, to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …