Studies of Social Stratification in Contemporary Japan : From the Perspective of Micro-Macro Linkages

我们通过关注地位获得过程背后的社会制度，更深入地了解不平等产生的机制。例如，导致贫困的社会进程在男女之间是不同的，这种差异反映了他们在劳动力市场上的地位的差异。另一项研究结果表明，日韩两国劳动市场制度的差异导致了两国女性重新进入劳动市场的方式的差异：日本女性在生育后以非正式劳动者的身份重新进入劳动市场，而韩国女性在正式部门、非正式部门和自主就业部门的重新进入比例几乎相等。

We get deeper understandings of inequality-generating mechanisms by focusing on social institutions behind the status attainment process. Social processes leading to poverty, for example, differ between men and women, and the difference reflects the difference in their positions in the labor market. Another finding shows that differences in institutions in the labor market between Japan and South Korea create the difference in the way women reenter the labor market between the two countries : Most of the Japanese women reenter the labor market as non-regular workers after childbearing, while their Korean counterparts almost evenly reenter regular, non-regular, and self-employment sectors.