Mobility and Inequality

Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics

By: Stephen L. Morgan (Editor), David B. Grusky (Editor), Gary S. Fields (Editor)

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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 questions like these. 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 macroeconomic conditions and societal levels of inequality on social and economic mobility.

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"This volume is the best source for any scholar seeking a one-volume treatment of current issues and findings on mobility and inequality." - George Farkas, University of California, Irvine "Mobility and Inequality delivers on its promise to integrate sociological and economic approaches to inequality. Leading scholars assess the past and set the future agenda for mobility research." - Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley "In Mobility and Inequality, some of the very best scholars in economics and sociology bring the intergenerational mobility literature forward in ways that conventional journal articles generally are unable to do. By blending these approaches to mobility research, the book brings the two academic fields closer to each other than I ever have seen before." - Anders Bjorklund, Stockholm University

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Non-Fiction Education Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Social Mobility Economics Labour Economics

Past themes and future prospects for research on social and economic mobility	p. 3
Would equal opportunity mean more mobility?	p. 23
How demanding should equality of opportunity be, and how much have we achieved?	p. 59
Does the sociological approach to studying social mobility have a future?	p. 85
The economic basis of social class	p. 109
Mobility : what? when? how	p. 137
Inequality of conditions and intergenerational mobility : changing patterns of educational attainment in the United States	p. 165
Family attainment norms and educational stratification in the United States and Taiwan : the effects of parents' school transitions	p. 195
Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational decision making	p. 232
Mental ability - uni or multidimensional? : an analysis of effects	p. 259
Counterfactual analysis of inequality and social mobility	p. 290
Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data	p. 349
Happiness pays : an analysis of well-being, income, and health based on Russian panel data	p. 370
The panel-of-countries approach to explaining income inequality : an interdisciplinary research agenda	p. 400
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