[Changing distribution of university graduates in Japan--from a cohort-by-cohort perspective].

Abstract

"This paper aims at describing and explaining the changing distribution of university graduates [UGs] in Japan in order to clarify the effects of interregional migration on changes in the social class composition of the Tokyo metropolitan area (TMA) and the rest of Japan (Non-TMA).... The analysis thereby begins with the distribution of the UGs by 5-year cohort in 1970, 1980 and 1990 measured by location quotients (LQs) of UGs in the TMA.... The paper then proceeds to an analysis of the determining process of the distribution pattern of the UGs by 5-year cohort." (SUMMARY IN ENG)