Japanese Urban System from the Viewpoint of the Status of Workers and the Mechanism on the Occurrence of the Regional Inequalities in Japan

本课题取得的主要成果如下：1.作者分析的原始数据是由作者自己对66万份《1992年就业状况调查》原始数据进行制表而成。三大都市圈（核心区）、三大都市圈外围（半外围区）和外围区之间劳动者的社会地位和人均收入存在较大的区域差异。外围区域城镇体系中劳动者社会地位和人均收入的区域差异要远大于其他两类区域.研究发现，男性劳动者社会地位的地区不平等性与地区系统（“核心-边缘关系”）和城市等级（“城市系统”）的关系远大于女性劳动者的关系。多元回归分析表明，“核心-边缘关系“和“城市等级”是影响区域经济不平等发生机制的重要因素.笔者可以提出区域经济不平等机制的概念化模型。

The results which were achieved in this project are as follows :1. The author analyzed the original data which were created through the tabulation of 660 thousand original sheets of "Employment Status Survey 1992", by himself.2. There are the large regiona linequalities in the social status of workers and the income per capita among three metropolitan regions (Core Regions), the outskirts of three metropolitan regions (Semi-periphery regions) and the peripheral regions. The regional differences in social status of workers and the income per capita are much larger among the regional urban system in the peripheral regions than among those in other two types of regions.3. We could find out that the regional inequalities in the social status of male workers vary much more in accordance with the regional system ("Core-periphery Relationship") and the urban hierarchy ("Urban System") than in that of female workers.4. According to the multiple regression analysis, it could be concluded that the important determinants on the mechanism on occurrence of regional inequalities were the factors characterized by "core-periphery relationship"and "urban hierarchy" .5. The author could propose the conceptualized model on the mechanism of regional inequalities.