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Mobility and inequality : frontiers of research in sociology and economics / edited by Stephen L. Morgan, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields - xx, 463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Studies in social inequality .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Past themes and future prospects for research on social and economic mobility -- How much mobility? Would Equal Opportunity mean more mobility? -- How demanding should equality of opportunity be, and how much have we achieved? -- Mobility between what? Does the sociological approach to studying social mobility have a future? -- The economic basis of social class -- Mobility : what? when? how? -- 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 -- Family attainment norms and educational stratification in the United States and Taiwan : the effects of parents' school transitions -- Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational decision making -- Mental ability : uni- or multidimensional? an analysis of effects -- Counterfactual analysis of inequality and social mobility -- Contexts of mobility : income dynamics and vulnerability to poverty -- Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data -- Happiness pays : an analysis of well being, income, and health based on Russian panel data -- The panel-of-countries approach to explaining income inequality : an interdisciplinary research agenda / Stephen L. Morgan / Christopher Jencks and Laura Tach / Valentino Dardanoni ... [and others] / David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden / John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight / Andrew Abbott / Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim / Robert D. Mare and Huey-Chi Chang / Richard Breen and Meir Yaish / David Epstein and Christopher Winship / Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro / Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim / Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar / Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini

ISBN: 0804752494

LCCN: 2005020553

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social mobility--Economic aspects
Equality
Income distribution

LC Class. No.: HT612 / .M63 2006

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