Focus

JTEPS collects original representative data on the (transnational) educational and professional trajectories of young adults in Japan, thereby providing a first comprehensive data source allowing to examine the relationship between international student mobility and social and gender inequalities more holistically than previous research. Two major questions guide our analyses:

• ACCESS (dimension of inequality): Which adolescents (with and without university background, of different social origin and gender) go abroad and which factors (individual, social, and institutional) influence their decision?
• BENEFITS (consequence of inequality): Which adolescents (with and without university background, of different social origin and gender) reap the monetary and/or non-monetary benefits of staying abroad (if any) in their early life and career?