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Migration informal human capital of returnees to Central Europe: a new rescource for organisations [PDF]
Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the interplay between international migration, soft skills and job and life satisfaction after returns. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the dataset of Human Capital in Poland 2010–2014 representative ...
Izabela Grabowska, Agata Jastrzebowska
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The article places the issue of Social Mobility at the heart of the debate about education. The suggestion is made that most people want is a decent income and good health and that people do not necessarily aspire to be better than their parents. There
B. Lenon
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Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China
Significance Accompanying a sharp rise in economic inequality in China since its economic reform, two countercurrents characterize the trends in China’s intergenerational social mobility.
Yu Xie, Hao Dong, Xiaoping Zhou, Xi Song
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Belief in Meritocracy Reexamined: Scrutinizing the Role of Subjective Social Mobility
Despite decreasing intergenerational mobility, strengthening the ties between family background and children’s economic outcomes, Western citizens continue to believe in meritocracy.
J. Mijs+3 more
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Background: Play is critical for children’s physical, cognitive, and social development. Technology-based toys like robots are especially of interest to children.
Joseline Raja Vora+8 more
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Social Capital, Black Social Mobility, and Health Disparities
This review aims to delineate the role of structural racism in the formation and accumulation of social capital and to describe how social capital is leveraged and used differently between Black and White people as a response to the conditions created by
Keon L. Gilbert+4 more
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Modeling sustainable mobility: Impact assessment of policy measures
Sociologically based models of complex systems can help to estimate the impact of policy measures on individuals and explain the resulting system dynamics.
Johannes Weyer+2 more
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From student mobility to social mobility:
Based on a mixed methodology, we analyse the profiles of Angolan, Brazilian and Cape Verdean students in mobility in Portuguese higher education. We question their motivations and the relationship between the mobility project and social mobility, which ...
Elisa da Palma Alves, Juliana Iorio
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Japan: Social Mobility and Social Barriers
The article examines the question of how rigid the system of social stratification is in Japan, whether it is possible for people to move from lower strata to higher strata, and what factors facilitate or, conversely, complicate this movement.
I. P. Lebedeva
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Calculation of Rates of Social Mobility as a Means for the Description and Interpretation of Structured Social Inequalities [PDF]
This study assesses the relevance of the methods of calculating mobility rates as a means describing and interpreting the nature and degree of structured social inequalities in a given system of social stratification.
Abdulkerim Sonmez
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