illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger …

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. …

. 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 …

illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger …

-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 …

in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. … which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle … earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in …

. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium … question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 …

what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good …

did markedly increase. Wage mobility has hardly changed since the mid-1990s: almost two thirds of employees in the lowest …