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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jencks, Christopher
• Tach, Laura
• Dardanoni, Valentino
• Roemer, John
• Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura
• Grusky, David B
• Weeden, Kim A
• Goldthorpe, John
• McKnight, Abigail
• Abbott, Andrew
• Kim, Young-Mi
• Mare, Robert D
• Chang, Huey-Chi
• Breen, Richard
• Yaish, Meir
• Epstein, David
• Winship, Christopher
• Cunha, Flavio
• Heckman, James J
• Navarro, Salvador
• Bourguignon, Francois
• Goh, Chor-ching
• Kim, Dae Il
• Graham, Carol
• Eggers, Andrew
• Sukhtankar, Sandip
• Atkinson, Anthony B
• Brandolini, Andrea
• Morgan, Stephen L
• Fields, Gary S

Titel

Mobility and inequality: Frontiers of research in sociology and economics

Ort / Verlag

Stanford: Stanford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30 years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed? In this volume, leading sociologists and economists present original findings and conceptual arguments in response to these questions. After assessing the range of mobility patterns observed in recent decades, the volume considers the mechanisms that generate mobility, focusing on both the training and skills that are rewarded in the labor market as well as the role of educational institutions in certifying graduates for professional positions. The volume concludes with chapters that assess the contexts of social mobility, examining the impact of macro-economic conditions and societal levels of inequality on social and economic mobility." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Content: PART ONE: Overview Stephen L. Morgan: Past themes and future prospects for research on social and economic mobility (3-20); PART TWO: How much mobility? Christopher Jencks, Laura Tach: Would equal opportunity mean more mobility? (23-58); Valentino Dardanoni, Gary S. Fields, John Roemer, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta: How demanding should equality of oppotunity be, and how much have we achieved? (59-82); PART THREE: Mobility between what? David B- Grusky, Kim A. Weeden: Does the sociological approach to studying social mobility have a future? (85-108); John Goldthorpe, Abigail McKnight: The economic basis of social class (109-136); Andrew Abbott: Mobility - What? When? How? (137-161); PART FOUR: Mechanisms of mobility - education and the process of intergenerational mobility Stephen L. Morgan, Young-Mi Kim: Inequality of conditions and intergenerational mobility - changing patterns of educational attainment in the United States (165-194); Robert D. Mare, Huey-Chi Chang: Family atteinment norms and educational stratification in the United States and Taiwan - the effects of parents' school transitions (195-231); Richard Breen, Meir Yaish: Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model eof educational decision making (232-258); David Epstein, Christoph Winship: Mental ability - Uni or multidimensional? An analysis of effects (259-289); Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro: Counterfactual analysis of inequality and social mobility (290-346); PART FIVE: Contexts of mobility - incomes dynamics and vulnerability to poverty Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, Dae Il Kim: Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data (349-369); Carol Grahamm, Andrew Eggers, Sandip Sukhtankar: Happiness pays - an analysis of well-being, income, and health based on russian panel data (370-399); Anthony B. Atkinson, Andrea Brandolini: The panel-of-countries approach to explaining income inequality - an interdisciplinary research agenda Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Methodenentwicklung; Grundlagenforschung. (400-448).