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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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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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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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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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Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility

Piacentini, Mario - 2009

of covillagers at destination, using data on life-time histories of migration and education choices from a rural region …

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Social mobility at the top: Why are elites self-reproducing?

Brezis, Elise S.; Hellier, Joël - 2013

This paper proposes an explanation for the decrease in social mobility that has occurred in the last two decades in a number of advanced economies, as well as for the divergence in mobility dynamics across countries. Within an intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education...

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Social mobility at the top : why are elites self-reproducing?

Brezis, Elise S.; Hellier, Joël - 2013

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Social mobility at the top and the higher education system

Brezis, Elise S.; Hellier, Joël - 2017

This paper relates social mobility and social stratification to the structure of higher education. We develop an intergenerational model which shows that a two-tier higher education characterised by a division between elite and standard universities can be a key factor in generating permanent...

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Social mobility at the top: Why are elites self-reproducing?

Brezis, Elise S.; Hellier, Joel - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

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