Zhi-Xiao Jia

Trends in intergenerational income mobility in Japan, 1985–2015

This paper examines trends in father-son income mobility in Japan between 1985 and 2015 using repeated cross-sectional data from the Social Stratification and Social Mobility (SSM) surveys. Fathers’ income is imputed using a two-sample two-stage least squares (TS2SLS) approach ba...