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 paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … decomposition over time. Specifically, we show that the mobility component of the decomposition, as measured by Gini correlation …

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well … as on income mobility. These findings are obviously even more important in cross-national comparative analyses if the …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … trends, inequality, and mobility with results based on SOEP, a widely used alternate panel survey of private households in … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well … as on income mobility. These findings are obviously even more important in cross-national comparative analyses if the …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from … there common trends in earnings inequality and mobility across countries? Equally weighted minimum distance methods are used …-sectional inequality was accompanied by an increase in mobility, and therefore a decrease in the importance of the permanent component …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and …

implications of these labour market structural changes for the structure of earnings inequality and earnings mobility. Using an … earnings inequality into persistent and transitory components and explored the extent to which changes in cross …-sectional earnings inequality between 1988 and 2004 reflect changes in the transitory or permanent components of earnings. Thanks to the …

results in inequality research. The authors find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well as … on income mobility. …