precautionary saving behavior of Japanese households. Our findings are: 1. Measures for income uncertainty have a positive influence … on the target for precautionary wealth but not on precautionary wealth. 2. The positive influence of income uncertainty … suggest that Japanese households save against income uncertainty until around when their head is aged 50 and then save against …

. We assume that the supporters of the Koizumi cabinet had an expectation of upward income mobility via the market. On this … relative income differ between supporters and non-supporters of the Koizumi cabinet. Key findings are as follows: within the … Koizumi cabinet period, a relatively low-income position is negatively related to happiness for non-LDP supporters but not for …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) in Japan is around .3 for both sons and daughters, a rather low figure in comparative … Japanese Social Strat- ification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on …

An almost complete halt in the secular trend in stature at a relatively low level is observed in Japan since the late … Japanese genetic pool or in the nutritional intake do not provide a convincing explanation. Japan is unique among OECD … across the 47 Japanese prefectures and use data covering the period 1950-2005. A positive and significant influence of income …

Education and income are important socioeconomic indicators that reflect different aspects of social hierarchy. However … that between income and health behaviour. According to the human capital theory of health investment, education would … reflect knowledge assets that allow an efficient investment in health, while income would relate to the value of healthy days …

study embraces all except the smallest European countries, with comparative material on Japan, Russia and the United States … labour income -- 6. Integrating consumption and labour income -- 7. Drawing the threads together -- 8. Governance, class …