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Title:
Mobility and inequality : frontiers of research in sociology and economics / edited by Stephen L. Morgan, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xx, 463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Social mobility--Economic aspects.
Equality.
Income distribution.
Other Authors:
Morgan, Stephen L. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002108769
Grusky, David B. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89602343
Fields, Gary S. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109048
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
Series:
Studies in social inequality
ISBN:
9780804752497
0804752494
OCLC:
(OCoLC)61162127
LCCN:
2005020553
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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