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. …

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …. Second, we look beyond static measures of material welfare and study economic and social mobility as well as indicators of …

Despite the importance attributed to intergenerational educational mobility in the process of development, there … remains little consensus on how mobility should be measured. We present analytical and empirical evidence regarding the … that use of an upwards mobility estimator, complemented by an outperformance metric, based on a reference distribution …

-productive assets, and residence status. Next, we evaluate individuals' socioeconomic mobility over time and across generations as a …

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 …

This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The … second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper … develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well as six macromobility components and their measures. The next section …

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 …

We use individual-level tax administrative data to estimate personal income inequality among the tax …-compliant population in South Africa over the period 2011-21. Our results indicate that inequality of this population rose slightly over … the period, with the Gini coefficient increasing from 0.64 to 0.66. The aggregate inequality metrics mask some notable …

Using 1990 5% Census and American Community Survey data, we examine the economic integration of Afghan refugees to the …

admission. Their entry led to new strategies for integration, including obligatory language classes and a host of measures … not be uniformly positive for immigrants and refugees to have an integration experience deemed successful. …