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Science Advances, 2020 Partisanship affects efforts to limit social mobility. Rampant partisanship in the United States may be the largest obstacle to the reduced social mobility most experts see as critical to limiting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing a total of
J. Clinton +3 more
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The changing geography of social mobility in the United States
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance Intergenerational social mobility in the United States has declined over the last century, sparking a national debate about how to improve equality of opportunity.
D. Connor, M. Storper
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Migration is a phenomenon worldwide, with older migrants, particularly those with fewer socioeconomic resources, having an increased risk of developing adverse cognitive and health outcomes and social isolation.
Ana C. Teixeira-Santos +7 more
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Subjective social mobility and health in Germany
European Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association, 2020 One's current socioeconomic position is intimately tied to one's health status. Further, childhood living conditions also exert lasting effects on the health of adults.
P. Präg, A. Gugushvili
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Contrasting social and non-social sources of predictability in human mobility [PDF]
, 2021 Social structures influence a variety of human behaviors including mobility patterns, but the extent to which one individual's movements can predict another's remains an open question. Further, latent information about an individual's mobility can be present in the mobility patterns of both social and non-social ties, a distinction that has not yet ...
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Comparison of Falls and its Determinants in the Elderly with and without Knee Osteoarthritis [PDF]
Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul, 2023 Background and Objective: The growth of aging reveals the importance of paying attention to the health needs of the elderly. According to some studies, falls and its consequences are more common in the individuals with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) than ...
P Norouzi +4 more
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Some social and physical correlates of intergenerational social mobility: evidence from the west of Scotland Collaborative Study [PDF]
, 1999 Mainstream sociological studies of intergenerational social mobility have emphasised social factors such as education and the material and cultural resources of the family of origin as the main influences on the chances and direction of social mobility ...
Blane, D., Davey Smith, G., Hart, C.L.
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The political economy of competitiveness and social mobility [PDF]
, 2012 Social mobility has become a mainstream political and media issue in recent years in the United Kingdom. This article suggests that part of the reason for this is that it can serve as a mechanism to discuss policy concerns that appear to be about social ...
A Nunn +29 more
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Economies, 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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Coupling Human Mobility and Social Ties [PDF]
, 2014 Studies using massive, passively data collected from communication technologies have revealed many ubiquitous aspects of social networks, helping us understand and model social media, information diffusion, and organizational dynamics.
Gonzalez, Marta C. +3 more
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