出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：In this paper, the author empirically examines the impact of occupational in- heritance from father to son as a factor lying behind the increasing trend to- ward solitary long-term worklessness. SSM data reveal that rates of occupa- tional inheritance have decreased since the war. JGSS data, meanwhile, show that inheritors (i) tend to become self-employed or business owners rather than non-regular workers, (ii) tend not to experience long-term worklessness or unemployment, (iii) have high levels of satisfaction with friendship and tend to feel a sense of attachment to their place of residence, and (iv) have low de- grees of solitary long-term worklessness. The data also show, more generally, that (v) long-term worklessness and unemployment tend to break down human networks, (vi) experience of long-term unemployment has a negative effect on happiness later in life, although, in the case of men, the frequency of eating out with friends does not impact happiness, while in the case of women, happiness increases significantly when the frequency of eating out with friends increases, among other findings.
