Cover Image

Mobility and inequality : frontiers of research in sociology and economics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Morgan, Stephen L., Grusky, David B., Fields, Gary S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Series:Studies in social inequality.
Subjects:
Social mobility > Economic aspects.
Equality.
Income distribution.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Past themes and future prospects for research on social and economic mobility / Stephen L. Morgan
  • How much mobility? Would Equal Opportunity mean more mobility? / Christopher Jencks and Laura Tach
  • How demanding should equality of opportunity be, and how much have we achieved? / Valentino Dardanoni ... [et al.]
  • Mobility between what? Does the sociological approach to studying social mobility have a future? / David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden
  • The economic basis of social class / John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight
  • Mobility : what? when? how? / Andrew Abbott
  • Mechanisms of mobility : education and the process of intergenerational mobility
  • Inequality of conditions and intergenerational mobility : changing patterns of educational attainment in the United States / Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim
  • Family attainment norms and educational stratification in the United States and Taiwan : the effects of parents' school transitions / Robert D. Mare and Huey-Chi Chang
  • Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational decision making / Richard Breen and Meir Yaish
  • Mental ability : uni- or multidimensional? an analysis of effects / David Epstein and Christopher Winship
  • Counterfactual analysis of inequality and social mobility / Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro
  • Contexts of mobility : income dynamics and vulnerability to poverty
  • Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data / Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim
  • Happiness pays : an analysis of well being, income, and health based on Russian panel data / Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar
  • The panel-of-countries approach to explaining income inequality : an interdisciplinary research agenda / Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini.