This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of …-productive assets, and residence status. Next, we evaluate individuals' socioeconomic mobility over time and across generations as a … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …