Overlooked and Invisible: A Profile of the Japanese Educated Working Poor

Authors

  • Pascal Stiefenhofer Newcastle University, Subject Group Economics, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.1010.15750

Keywords:

Japan, working poor, educated working poor, poverty

Abstract

Expanding the work proposed by Murakami et al. (2011), we seek to discover and profile a subset of the Japanese working poor, namely those who are educated to degree level. Using data from the Japanese Household Panel Survey, we build up a profile into the educated working poor, and show they have significantly lower self-reported levels of income satisfaction and life satisfaction. Further, we explore the extent to which geographical factors play a key role in explaining the newly identified educated working poor, and find that there are significant spatial differences in the poor rate, and that job location, occupation, and firm size is significantly different for the educated working poor compared to the working poor.

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Published

2023-10-27

How to Cite

Stiefenhofer, P. (2023). Overlooked and Invisible: A Profile of the Japanese Educated Working Poor. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 10(10), 173–179. https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.1010.15750

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 10 (2023): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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