Social mobility in developing countries : concepts, methods, and determinants / edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen

Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (728 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Additional Creators: Iversen, Vegard, Krishna, Anirudh, 1958-, and Sen, Kunal, 1961-

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Social mobility is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society. There are disagreements about what constitutes social mobility, but there is broad agreement that people should have roughly equal chances of success regardless of their economic status at birth. Concerns about rising inequality have engendered a renewed interest in social mobility - especially in the developing world. However, efforts to construct the databases and meet the standards required for conventional analyses of social mobility are at a preliminary stage and need to be complemented by innovative, conceptual, and methodological advances. If forms of mobility have slowed in the West, then we might be entering an age of rigid stratification with defined boundaries between the always-haves and the never-haves - which does not augur well for social stability.

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9780191919138 (ebook)

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This edition also issued in print: 2021.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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