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Does Economic Inequality Account for Cross-Country Discrepancies in Relative Social Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

open access: yesEconomies, 2022
This paper makes use of the Markov Switching model and the K-Means Cluster analysis to estimate the transition probabilities of social mobility and to analyze the impact of social inequalities on intergenerational social mobility. The dataset is a sample
John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba   +2 more
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Intergenerational Mobility around the World [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. For 87 percent of the world’s population, it provides trends in intergenerational mobility for individuals born between 1950 to 1989.
van der Weide, Roy   +4 more
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The Impact of Embodied Cultural Capital (Subjective) on Intergeneration Social Mobility (Case Study: 30-54 Year-Old Citizens in Gorgan) [PDF]

open access: yesتوسعه اجتماعی, 2017
The purpose of this paper was intended to study the impact embodied cultural capital and intergenerational mobility of individuals in the city of Gorgan. The research method used in this study is suevey.
zahra ghafary
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Intergenerational social mobility and body mass index trajectories – A follow-up study from Finland

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2021
Evidence remains unclear on how intergenerational social mobility is associated with body mass index (BMI) and its long-term changes. Our study identified BMI trajectories from middle to older age by intergenerational social mobility groups and ...
J. Salmela   +5 more
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The effect of intergenerational mobility on family education investment: evidence from China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The discussion of inequality has been an enduring topic in sociology and economics. With the intensification of inequality, an increasing amount of research has begun to focus on the impact of inequality on various aspects of the economy and society ...
Nan Zhao   +3 more
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Intergenerational educational mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yesWorld Development Sustainability, 2023
Research on social mobility in developing countries has been hampered by the coresidency criterion applied to most surveys. However, a recent study showed that for educational mobility, the intergenerational correlation (IGC) suffers from significantly ...
Seife Dendir
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How Much Scope for a Mobility Paradox? The Relationship between Social and Income Mobility in Sweden

open access: yesSociological Science, 2016
It is often pointed out that conclusions about intergenerational (parent–child) mobility can differ depending on whether we base them on studies of class or income.
Richard Breen   +2 more
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Shaping and reproduction patterns of power elites in former Yugoslavia I: Vertical mobility [PDF]

open access: yesSociologija, 2003
This work consists of two parts. In the first one are presented some general characteristics and are analyzed vertical social mobility of power elite's in Serbia and Croatia.
Miladinović Slobodan M.
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Inequality of Opportunity and Aggregate Economic Performance

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
Economists have developed an extensive literature examining the relationships between inequality of outcomes and growth, but few research papers have investigated the relationship between inequality of opportunity and growth.
Katharine Bradbury, Robert K. Triest
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The Impact of Intergenerational Mobility on Msa Growth in the United States

open access: yesStudies in Business and Economics, 2020
This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and intergenerational mobility in the United States. Data from metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S.
Joseph Mauro
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