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Journal Article
Multigenerational mobility among males in India

THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility—status transmission across three generations...

multigenerational mobility Occupational mobility Educational mobility
Journal Article
Multigenerational mobility among males in India

THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility—status transmission across three generations...

multigenerational mobility Occupational mobility Educational mobility
Book Chapter
Ethnography and social mobility: A review

Part of Journal Special Issue Social mobility in developing countries

Ethnography Inequality Migration
Working Paper
How far does the apple really fall from the tree?: Practical guidance on measuring intergenerational mobility from a simulation framework

Despite the importance attributed to intergenerational educational mobility in the process of development, there remains little consensus on how mobility should be measured...

Mobility Measurement error Sample truncation
Working Paper
Multigenerational mobility in India

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility—that is, status transmission across three generations...

multigenerational mobility Occupational mobility Educational mobility
Working Paper
What’s behind pro-poor growth?: The role of shocks and measurement error

Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution...

Measurement error Shocks Pro-poor
Working Paper
The ethnographic approach to social mobility

The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility...

Ethnography Inequality Migration
Working Paper
Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century: Poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987–2012

We analyse the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning the period 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of consumption distribution...

Intragenerational mobility Welfare dynamics Imputation
Conference
Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID Migration and mobility - new frontiers for research and policy
5 October 2017 – 6 October 2017
ISSER Conference Hall, P.O Box LG 74 Legon-Accra, Botanical Gardens Rd, Accra, Ghana
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