Educational Expansion, Economic Growth and Educational Credentials:

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  • 高学歴化・経済変動と学歴：
  • 高学歴化・経済変動と学歴 : 上層ホワイトカラー入職に対する学歴効果の変容
  • コウガクレキカ ・ ケイザイ ヘンドウ ト ガクレキ : ジョウソウ ホワイトカラーニュウショク ニ タイスル ガクレキ コウカ ノ ヘンヨウ
  • The Changes in the Effects of Educational Credentials on Entering the Upper White-Collar Class
  • 上層ホワイトカラー入職に対する学歴効果の変容

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<p>This paper examines whether the effects of educational credentials on the entry into the upper white-collar class, where college graduate workers are expected to be engaged, have changed due to the rapid educational expansion and economic growth since the 1990s. The entry route divided into 1 ) the route of entering as a profession in the first job, and 2 ) the route of entering a managerial position through intra-generational mobilization is analyzed. Further, the changes in the effects of educational credentials of male employees entering their jobs after 1995, when the number of college graduates increased, and female employees entering their jobs after 1999, after the equal employment policy for women was introduced, is discussed.<br><br>By analyzing the merger data of the 1995, 2005, and 2015 surveys of the national survey of social stratification and mobility in Japan, the following three points were shown. First, access to professional occupations as a first job is still strongly associated with higher education, although the number of college graduates is increasing. There is no increased disadvantage to private college graduates whose college selectivity in terms of admission is low, and rather there is increased advantage to private college graduates whose college selectivity in terms of admission is high.<br><br>Secondly, university graduates have encountered increased difficulty in entering managerial positions after 1995. Disadvantages have been increasing particularly for private college graduates whose college selectivity in terms of admission is low. Thus, inflation of educational credentials occurred not in access to professional occupations but in promotion within men’s managerial positions. Thirdly, in the case of women, the effects of educational credentials have rather strengthened due to the equal employment policy for women after 1999. These changes are sharper in female university graduates. In particular, those women whose college selectivity in terms of admission is high became more likely to enter a managerial position.</p>

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