Mobility and inequality : frontiers of research from sociology and economics /
"How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in indust...
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Studies in social inequality.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Overview
- Past themes and future prospects for research on social and economic mobility / Stephen L. Morgan
- Part II. How much mobility?
- Would Equal Opportunity mean more mobility? / Christopher S. Jencks and Laura Tach
- How demanding should equality of opportunity be, and how much have we achieved? / Valentino Dardanoni [and others]
- Part III. Mobility between what?
- Does the sociological approach to studying social mobility have a future? / David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden
- The economic basis of social class / John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight
- Mobility : what? when? how? / Andrew Abbott
- Part IV. Mechanisms of mobility : education and the process of intergenerational mobility
- Inequality of conditions and intergenerational mobility : changing patterns of educational attainment in the United States / Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim
- Family attainment norms and educational stratification in the United States and Taiwan : the effects of parents' school transitions / Robert D. Mare and Huey-Chi Chang
- Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational decision making / Richard Breen and Meir Yaish
- Mental ability : uni- or multidimensional? an analysis of effects / David Epstein and Christopher Winship
- Counterfactual analysis of inequality and social mobility / Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro V.
- Part V. Contexts of mobility : income dynamics and vulnerability to poverty
- Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data / Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim
- Happiness pays : an analysis of well-being, income, and health based on Russian panel data / Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar
- The panel-of-countries approach to explaining income inequality : an interdisciplinary research agenda / Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini.