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. …

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 …

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

International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites … review indirect empirical evidence relevant to this type of mobility, highlighting some channels through which elites can … affect international development. -- International migration ; entrepreneurial ; political migrants ; talent mobility …