TY - BOOK AU - Morgan,Stephen L AU - Grusky,David B AU - Fields,Gary S TI - Mobility and inequality: frontiers of research in sociology and economics T2 - Studies in social inequality SN - 0804752494 AV - HT612 .M63 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Social mobility KW - Economic aspects KW - Equality KW - Income distribution N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ... [and others]; -- 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 ER -