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Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants
Working Paper
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