Mobility and inequality
Subtitle: frontiers of research from sociology and economics
By: edited by Stephen L. Morgan, David Grusky, and Gary S. Fields.
Contributors: Morgan, Stephen L.; Grusky, David B.; Fields, Gary S.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Social mobility -- Economic aspects; Equality; Income distribution
Description: xx, 463 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Past themes and future prospects for research on  social and economic mobility / Stephen L. Morgan; title: How much mobility?  Would Equal Opportunity mean more mobility? / Christopher S. Jencks and Laura Tach; title: 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; title: Mobility between what? Does the sociological approach to studying social mobility have a future? / David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden; title: The economic basis of social class / John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight; title: Mobility : what? when? how? / Andrew Abbott; title: Mechanisms of mobility : education and the process of intergenerational mobility; title: Inequality of conditions and intergenerational mobility : changing patterns of educational attainment in the United States / Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim; title: 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; title: Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational decision making / Richard Breen and Meir Yaish; title: Mental ability : uni- or multidimensional? an analysis of effects / David Epstein and Christopher Winship; title: Counterfactual analysis of inequality and social mobility / Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro V.; title: Contexts of mobility : income dynamics and  vulnerability to poverty; title: Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data /  Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim; title: Happiness pays : an analysis of well being, income,  and health based on Russian panel data / Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar; title: The panel-of-countries approach to explaining income inequality : an interdisciplinary research agenda  /  Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini.