TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan,Stephen L
AU  - Grusky,David B
AU  - Fields,Gary S
TI  - Mobility and inequality : frontiers of research from sociology and economics 
SN  - 9780804752497
AV  - HT612 .M63 2006
U1  - 305.513 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Equality
KW  - Income distribution
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Overview -- 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 S. Jencks and Laura Tach -- How demanding should equality of opportunity be, and how much have we achieved? / Valentino Dardanoni, Gary S. Fields, John Roemer, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta -- 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 V. -- 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
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