The Life Course Perspectives and Regional Mobility : How People from Fukui City Chose their Education, Career and Residential Location

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We conducted a questionnaire survey to the graduates of 3 public high schools in Fukui City, who finished those schools during these 50 years. The survey was on their life course, focusing on further education after high school, employment, and residential choice. The survey shows that those who left Fukui prefecture after high school and later U-turned to Fukui prefecture mostly came back to Fukui immediately after graduating from university or college, and that it is rear to U-turn after mid-30s, when their lives outside Fukui tend to be fixed. In the recent years, cost of mobility is increasing, and opportunities of regional mobility tend to be limited to advancement to college. The survey also shows that the rate of those settling down in Fukui prefecture largely differ among eldest sons, younger sons, and daughters, because of the norm of eldest son taking over the family.