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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Clark, Gregory - 2020

In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...

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Brazilian mobilities

Nogueira, Maria Alice de Faria (ed.); … - 2020 - First edition

"Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of Mobility studies developed in Brazil, it builds a picture of a strong Latin-American perspective emerging in the field of mobilities research, which provides unique insight into the complex dynamics of mobilities in the emerging...

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Concepts of social mobility

Fields, Gary S. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019

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...

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Migrating for children's better future : intergenerational mobility of internal migrants' children in Indonesia

Fatimah, Alfariany Milati; Kofol, Chiara - 2019

Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 … million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration on the second … generation continue to be under-explored. This paper investigates the long-term impact of parents' migration on their children …

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Income increase and moving to a better neighbourhood : an enquiry into ethnic differences in Finland

Vaalavuo, Maria; Ham, Maarten van; Kauppinen, Timo M. - 2017

of residence. Based on multinomial logit modelling of migration outcomes, we found that an increase in income is …

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Is London really the engine-room? : migration, opportunity hoarding and regional social mobility in the UK

Friedman, Sam; Macmillan, Lindsey - In: National Institute economic review 240 (2017), pp. 58-72

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Educational mobility across three generations of American women

Kroeger, Sarah; Thompson, Owen - In: Economics of education review 53 (2016), pp. 72-86

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Train to opportunity: the effect of infrastructure on intergenerational mobility

Costas-Fernández, Julián; Guerran, José-Alberto; … - 2020

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Mobility in China

Chen, Yi; Cowell, Frank A. - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 63 (2017) 2, pp. 203-218

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Transnational social mobility of minorities : a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

with that of migration and addresses this gap by developing a theory of a growing phenomenon: the transnational social …

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