Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics by Ste

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This book is a collection of original research from the leading scholars in sociology and economics studying mobility and inequality. The volume brings together the state-of-the-art in the field and sets the agenda for future research.

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How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30 years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed? In this volume, leading sociologists and economists present original findings and conceptual arguments in response to questions like these. After assessing the range of mobility patterns observed in recent decades, the volume considers the mechanisms that generate mobility, focusing on both the training and skills that are rewarded in the labor market as well as the role of educational institutions in certifying graduates for professional positions. The volume concludes with chapters that assess the contexts of social mobility, examining the impact of macroeconomic conditions and societal levels of inequality on social and economic mobility.

Author Biography

Stephen L. Morgan is Director of the Center for Study of Inequality and Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Gary S. Fields is Professor of Labor Economics at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Contents @toc4:List of Tables and Figuresiii Acknowledgmentsiii @toc1:I. Overview @toc2:1. Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan @toc1:II. How Much Mobility? @toc2:2. Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility?000 @tocca:Christopher S. Jencks and Laura Tach @toc2:3. How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved?000 @tocca:Valentino Dardanoni, Gary S. Fields, John Roemer, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta @toc1:III. Mobility Between What? @toc2:4. Does the Sociological Approach to Studying Social Mobility Have a Future?000 @tocca:David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden @toc2:5. The Economic Basis of Social Class000 @tocca:John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight @toc2:6. Mobility: What? When? How?000 @tocca:Andrew Abbott @toc1:IV. Mechanisms of Mobility: Education and the Process of Intergenerational Mobility @toc2:7. Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim @toc2:8. Family Attainment Norms and Educational Stratification in the United States and Taiwan: The Effects of Parents' School Transitions000 @tocca:Robert D. Mare and Huey-Chi Chang @toc2:9. Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making000 @tocca:Richard Breen and Meir Yaish @toc2:10. Mental Ability--Uni or Multidimensional? An Analysis of Effects000 @tocca:David Epstein and Christopher Winship @toc2:11. Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility000 @tocca:Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro @toc1:V. Contexts of Mobility: Income Dynamics and Vulnerability to Poverty @toc2:12. Estimating Individual Vulnerability to Poverty with Pseudo-Panel Data000 @tocca:Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim @toc2:13. Happiness Pays: An Analysis of Well Being, Income, and Health Based on Russian Panel Data000 @tocca:Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar @toc2:14. The Panel-of-Countries Approach to Explaining Income Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda 000 @tocca:Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini Index000

Review

"This volume is the best source for any scholar seeking a one-volume treatment of current issues and findings on mobility and inequality." - George Farkas, University of California, Irvine "Mobility and Inequality delivers on its promise to integrate sociological and economic approaches to inequality. Leading scholars assess the past and set the future agenda for mobility research." - Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley "In Mobility and Inequality, some of the very best scholars in economics and sociology bring the intergenerational mobility literature forward in ways that conventional journal articles generally are unable to do. By blending these approaches to mobility research, the book brings the two academic fields closer to each other than I ever have seen before." - Anders Bjorklund, Stockholm University

Long Description

How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling? As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30 years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed? In this volume, leading sociologists and economists present original findings and conceptual arguments in response to questions like these. After assessing the range of mobility patterns observed in recent decades, the volume considers the mechanisms that generate mobility, focusing on both the training and skills that are rewarded in the labor market as well as the role of educational institutions in certifying graduates for professional positions. The volume concludes with chapters that assess the contexts of social mobility, examining the impact of macroeconomic conditions and societal levels of inequality on social and economic mobility.

Review Quote

"This volume is the best source for any scholar seeking a one-volume treatment of current issues and findings on mobility and inequality."

Details ISBN0804778612 Short Title MOBILITY & INEQUALITY Pages 488 Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804778612 ISBN-13 9780804778619 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 305.513 Year 2011 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Edited by Gary S. Fields Author Gary S. Fields Publication Date 2011-06-06 UK Release Date 2011-06-06 AU Release Date 2011-06-06 NZ Release Date 2011-06-06 US Release Date 2011-06-06 Series Studies in Social Inequality Alternative 9780804752497 Audience Undergraduate Illustrations 63 tables, 55 figures We've got this

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