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Social mobility and inequality between groupsThe relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to ‘vertical’ than to ‘horizontal’ inequality...
Social mobility Horizontal inequality Ethnic inequalityWorking Paper
Social mobility in China: A case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global SouthThis study analyses intergenerational class mobility in China as a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South...
Social mobility Gender log-linear modelsWorking Paper
Concepts of social mobilityThis paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research...
Social mobility economic mobility macromobilityWorking Paper
Will urbanization raise social mobility in the South, replicating the economic history of the West?As developing countries rapidly urbanize, the number of people living in ‘slums’—neighbourhoods lacking property rights and basic services—continues to increase...
Informality Slums Social mobilityWorking Paper
Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa: A mixed-methods investigationThis paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio-economically disadvantaged urban African population...
Poverty Social mobility Livelihood assetsWorking Paper
Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countriesThis paper provides a critical survey and synthesis of the recent economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges...
Social mobility Intergenerational elasticity Developing countriesWorking Paper
Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countriesParental human capital and endowments may affect children’s human capital, which in turn may affect children’s earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility...
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive abilityProject workshop
Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants
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The individual poverty incidence of growthThe canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth...
income mobility Poverty Dynamics Pro-poorNews
Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’
SDGs Transformation InformalityProject
Social mobility in the Global South - concepts, measures, and determinants
Theme: Current programme
Social mobility intergenerational inequality equality of opportunityWorking Paper
Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveysThis study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status across six new harmonized surveys from three Arab countries: Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) a...
Return migration Social mobility MENAProject
The politics of group-based inequalities - measurement, implications, and possibilities for change
Theme: Inclusion
Inclusion Inequality Horizontal inequalityProject
Disadvantaged groups and social mobilityTheme: Inclusion
This project has three main objectives in line with UNU-WIDER’s tradition in the area of inclusion and horizontal inequality: (1) to shed further light on the extent to which inequalities run along ethnic, gender, and other communal lines; (2...
Disadvantaged groups Social mobility Group-based inequality