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"Social mobility — defined as the ability to move from a lower to a higher level of education or occupational status, or from a lower to a higher social class or income group — is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society."

Note de contenu :

PART I. INTRODUCTION
1:The state of knowledge about social mobility in the developing world, Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen

PART II: THEORY AND CONCEPTS
2:Drivers of mobility in the Global South, Patrizio Piraino
3:Exploring concepts of social mobility, Gary Fields
4:Social mobility in developing countries: Measurement and downward mobility pitfalls, Vegard Iversen
5:In praise of snapshots, Ravi Kanbur

PART III: TYPES OF MOBILITY
6:Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidence, Himanshu and Peter Lanjouw
7:Educational mobility in the developing world, Florencia Torche
8:Rethinking occupational mobility in developing countries: Conceptual issues and empirical findings, Anthony Heath and Yizhang Zhao

PART IV: DIALOGUE ON MEASUREMENT AND METHODS
9:Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
10:Social mobility in China: A case study of social mobility research in the Global South, Yaojun Li
11:Ethnography and social mobility: A review, Divya Vaid
12:Measuring social mobility in historic and less developed societies, Gregory Clark

PART V: DRIVERS AND INHIBITORS
13:Social mobility and human capital in low- and middle-income countries, Jere Behrman
14:Informalities, volatility, and precarious social mobility in urban slums, Anirudh Krishna and Emily Rains
15:Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation, Nancy Luke
16:Social mobility and horizontal inequality, Patricia Funjika and Rachel M. Gisselquist
17:Social networks as levers of mobility, Anandi Mani and Emma Riley

PART VI: CONCLUSIONS
18:Social mobility in developing countries: Directions for research practice, knowledge gaps and policy support, Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen

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https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/social-mobility-developing-countries-0

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