Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis …

The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a … social mobility in the developing world have been explored ethnographically. It discusses the themes that these studies cover … in terms of two frames: the social construction of mobility and the fields within which mobility plays out. …

. Second, we look beyond static measures of material welfare and study economic and social mobility as well as indicators of …

mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile …-child estimates. They are also more robust to errors in status data. Thus, they can be used to estimate social mobility rates in early … societies such as England 1300-1800, or in less-developed societies now. Surnames measure a different aspect of social mobility …

at each percentile of the initial personalized distribution with counterfactual mobility profiles which rule out the …, significant upward mobility among the initially poorer, a sizeable part of which cannot be explained by unobserved individual …

a preliminary examination of income mobility across this income distribution, particularly within the top income groups …. We find low levels of upward mobility, driven by very little upward mobility into the top decile and low downward … mobility out of this decile, particularly for those in the top percentile in 2011. …

sources. An empirical application characterizes the distributional change in Spain following the Great Recession, defining …