social mobility

role of education in social mobility

Most intergenerational social mobility studies are based upon retrospective data, in which samples of individuals report socioeconomic information about their parents, an approach that provides representative data for off-spring but not the parental generation. When available, prospective data

Three motivating questions Social mobility and public policy The determinants of social mobility Social mobility in an era of rising inequality Directions for public policy Three concluding answers Social mobility varies across countries Mobility varies with inequality Inequality has been rising 1

Homophily and the speed of social mobilization: The effect of acquired and ascribed traits

of entrepreneurship in the economy and socioeconomic mobility, that is, the movement of families across wealth classes over time. First, a number of stylized facts based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Survey of Consumer Finances are outlined. They show relevant differences in asset holdings

This study argues that both unequal opportunity and social mobility are necessary implications of an efficient societal arrangement when incentives must be provided.

We introduce a system for sensing complex social systems with data collected from one hundred mobile phones over the course of six months. We demonstrate the ability to use standard Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephones to measure information access and use in different contexts, recognize social

Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Vocational BehaviorAmericans ' faith in a prosperous future and their endorsement of the American dream is being increasingly challenged by a social system restricting this dream to a select few. Rising inequality (CBO, 2011) has

We estimate the chances of poor and non-poor children getting places in good schools, analysing the relationship between poverty, location and school assignment. Our dataset allows us to measure location and distance very precisely. The simple unconditional difference in probabilities of attending a good school is substantial. We run an analysis that controls completely for location, exploiting within-street variation and controlling for other personal characteristics. Children from poor families are significantly less likely to go to good schools. We show that the lower chance of poor children attending a good school is essentially unaffected by the degree of choice.