A Study On The Occupational Intergenerational Mobility Comparison Among Four East Asian Countries(Areas)

International comparisons of social mobility have long been a classic issue of concern for the International Sociological Association.Featherman,Jones and Hauser(1975)put forward a famous "FH Hypothesis":In the countries with market economy and core family system,although different countries differ in the intensity of correlation,there is a strong similarity in flow patterns.Over the past few decades,East Asian countries and regions,including China,have made great achievements in the industrialization process,created the "East Asian economic miracle".Japan,Korea and Taiwan,China have been very successful in combining the high economic growth rate with the relative equality of income distribution to achieve the "rapid growth of fair share" model(World Bank,1993).But,while China's economy is developing,social inequality and the broadening income gap are outstanding,the fairness and tolerance of the economic growth has been questioned.The industrialization of China,Japan,Korea and Taiwan,China is not the same,but there are many similarities in the strategy of economic development,as well as cultural traditions,historical background and ideology.Therefore,this paper will study and compare the strength and pattern of social mobility in generations between China,Japan,Korea and Taiwan,China.For one thing,theoretically,this can place the examination of the differences in social mobility caused by the industrialization mechanism under more controllable conditions,thus it can help to evaluate the impact of industrialization development degree on transnational flow difference,Exploring China's peculiarity from characteristics of social chances structure,thus we can get know of China's income inequality from the view of sociology.This paper will follow the traditional thinking of social mobility international comparison,and distinguish between the changes of the inter-generational vocational class tumover and the change of the relative flow opportunities caused by structural changes.Based on East Asian Social Survey(EASS)data,this paper uses the Quasi Symmetry Model to measure the influence on inter-generational mobility caused by the heterogeneity of the marginal distribution between father generation and songeneration,which can reflect the structural flow effect of career change in the process of industrialization,Using the Log-Multiplicative Layer Effect Model and the Core Model to measure the intensity and mode of relative flow in inter-generational occupational mobility.This paper tries to compare the inter-generational occupational correlation situation between China,Japan,Korea and Taiwan,so as to exploring the similarities and differences in structural mobility and relative mobility among these four countries or areas.Specifically,including two aspects of studying:?Testing the feasibility of "FJH Hypothesis" in East Asia,so as to further highlighting the social inheritance and social mobility characteristics of China,Japan,Korea and Taiwan these four countries and areas,?In order to discover the social mobility characteristics behind China's income inequality,we also want to find what characteristics in social mobility can distinguish China from the general mobility mode in other countries and areas.The structure of this paper as follows:The main conclusions of this paper as follows:? At the same time that the career structure is changing rapidly,the working class is still the dominant class of Chinese society,and the proportion of professional and technical class and staff is still less than that of the other three countries.?From the structural mobility change of international comparison,the significant reduction of the farmer class labor force is a commonness in East Asian countries or areas,but differences in the levels of industrialization for worker mobility has a certain level,in the low level of industrialization of China and Korea,the working class belong to inflow class,while in Japan and Taiwan both the working class and the peasant class belong to the outflow class.?As the estimated results of the Core Model show that the four countries or areas in East Asia possess the widespread social mobility pattern in transnational flows comparison——the inheritance pattern and the short flow pattern,and these countries and areas all are in favor of the“FJH Hypothesis".Meanwhile,we find that in the process that the relative position of social class and the redistribution of relative chances caused by China's rapid industrialization,both the manual and the non-manual working class have new closure.The main innovation points can be concluded as follows:Firstly,Putting China,Japan,Korea and Taiwan together to study social mobility international comparisons,which can place the examination of the differences in social mobility caused by the industrialization mechanism under more controllable conditions,Secondly,based on EASS occupational codes,this paper adjusts the EGP 7 classification occupational class framework adopted in the comparative study of international inter-generational social mobility to better adapt to the comparative analysis of East Asian social structure,Thirdly,using the Quasi Symmetry Model,the Log-Multiplicative Layer the Effect Model and the Core Model as basic analytical instruments,we intensively distinguishes between the changes of the inter-generational vocational class turnover and the change of the relative flow opportunities caused by structural changes,and explore the similarities and differences in structural mobility and relative mobility among four countries or areas.