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Social mobility and fertility [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2007 Intra- and inter-generational social mobility have in the past played an important role in attempts to explain fertility behaviour, and continue to do so today. The opinions expressed by social scientists in the first part of the 20th century are renewed
Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna
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Migration informal human capital of returnees to Central Europe: a new rescource for organisations [PDF]
Central European Management Journal, 2023 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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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 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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Modeling sustainable mobility: Impact assessment of policy measures
TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2023 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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Journal of Public Economics, 2021 We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the A ...
Majed Dodin +5 more
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From student mobility to social mobility:
Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, 2021 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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Education and social mobility [PDF]
International Tax and Public Finance, 2010 This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system.
Helmuth Cremer +3 more
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Japan: Social Mobility and Social Barriers
Ежегодник Япония, 2022 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]
İnsan & Toplum, 2020 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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Spatial and Social Mobility [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 AbstractThis paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two‐skill‐type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area that is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area.
Matthias Wrede +2 more
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