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Opportunity and Social Mobility [PDF]
The Review of Economic Studies, 2005 The fact that the children of rich parents have better economic prospects than the children of poor parents ("unequal opportunity") is generally thought to be one of the weak points of modem capitalist societies. The ability of the descendants of poor families to eventually become rich and the descendants of rich families to eventually become poor ...
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Education and Social Fluidity: A Reweighting Approach
Sociological Science, 2022 Although sociologists have devoted considerable attention to studying the role of education in intergenerational social class mobility using log-linear models for contingency tables, indings in this literature are not free from rescaling or non ...
Kristian Bernt Karlson
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 In recent years, Western countries have been experiencing a growing wave of immigration. Due to this development, these countries are facing great challenges in successfully integrating large numbers of immigrants and in preserving social cohesion ...
Débora B. Maehler +2 more
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Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2017 In this paper, are described the basics of Social Based Mobility Model inspired by mobility of students alongside with Metrics for Evaluation of Social Behaviour in Mobility Models for MANET-DTN networks.
David Hrabcak +3 more
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Shades of social mobility: Colorism, ethnic origin and intergenerational social mobility
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2022 In this paper, I study the difference in intergenerational mobility patterns between the indigenousand non-indigenous Mexican populations, analyzing the role played by the variability in skintones inside both groups. I employ a composite sample based on two recent surveys with thesame sampling frame and questionnaire design.
Luis Angel Monroy-Gómez-Franco +1 more
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Mashriq & Mahjar, 2022 This paper looks at careers, families, and households as a way to explore the relationship between two forms of movement—physical and social. Privileging the account of a family over the more traditional androcentric historical narrative, it utilizes ...
David Motzafi-Haller
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Social Mobility and Redistributive Taxation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social mobility affect the choices of redistributional taxes. In the absence of social mobility, voters choose tax rates that are very well in line with the prediction derived in the standard framework by Meltzer and Richard (1981). However,
Florian Morath +2 more
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The Communicative Interpretation for Arab Social Mobility (Arab Social Movement)
Проблеми на постмодерността, 2022 The study aims to analyze the social mobility in the Arab countries in 2011, presenting an approach based on considering communication factors that played a crucial role in motivating young people and the Arab masses to participate and influence what ...
Mohamed Abdelwahab Allali
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Upward Mobility, Despite a Stigmatised Identity: Immigrants of Iranian Origin in Sweden
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2022 This study is about a relatively recent immigrant group — those with an Iranian background — and their pathways to advanced positions in the three fields of economics, politics and academia in Swedish society, despite the general processes of ...
Alireza Behtoui
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Bridging the Gap: Making Sense of the Disaccord between Migrants’ Education and Occupation
Social Inclusion, 2021 Social mobility is a central topic of interest within sociology and whilst it has been theoretically linked to spatial mobility, there is still little empirical research on the interplay between the two.
Anica Waldendorf
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