The paper aims at investigating the role that one country's position in the international trade network has in …

mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile …-child estimates. They are also more robust to errors in status data. Thus, they can be used to estimate social mobility rates in early … societies such as England 1300-1800, or in less-developed societies now. Surnames measure a different aspect of social mobility …

Geographic mobility is a celebrated feature of American life. Deciding where to live is seen not only as a key personal … right to travel is safeguarded by the Constitution, these mobility decisions are not entirely free. In terms of moving long … distances, employment and family reasons are central, and a regime of employment and family law “mobility measures” play a …