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. …

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 …

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 …

We investigate the trends of inequalities and mobility of income, expenditure and stock of durables between 1993 and … 1998 in Hungary. In 1996-8 the stagnating level of inequalities is coupled with relatively low and decreasing mobility. The … relationship between inequalities and mobility fastens the relative positions of households, increasing the share of households …

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 …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …