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oapen-20.500.12657-526362022-02-04T02:50:41Z Social Mobility in Developing Countries Iversen, Vegard Krishna, Anirudh Sen, Kunal Development economics & emerging economies; social mobility; welfare economics; economic growth bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFM Social mobility bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCR Welfare economics bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCR Welfare economics 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. Social mobility research is ongoing, with substantive findings in different disciplines—typically with researchers in isolation from each other. A key contribution of this book is the pulling together of the emerging streams of knowledge. Generating policy-relevant knowledge is a principal concern. Three basic questions frame the study of diverse aspects of social mobility in the book. How to assess the extent of social mobility in a given development context when the datasets by conventional measurement techniques are unavailable? How to identify drivers and inhibitors of social mobility in particular developing country contexts? How to acquire the knowledge required to design interventions to raise social mobility, either by increasing upward mobility or by lowering downward mobility? 2022-02-03T09:46:15Z 2022-02-03T09:46:15Z 2021 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52636 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9780192896858.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-mobility-in-developing-countries-9780192896858 Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192896858.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780192896858.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 c9be6ad3-6692-452d-a1f3-a3e6c74f0fe2 512 Oxford UNU WIDER open access
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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. Social mobility research is ongoing, with substantive findings in different disciplines—typically with researchers in isolation from each other. A key contribution of this book is the pulling together of the emerging streams of knowledge. Generating policy-relevant knowledge is a principal concern. Three basic questions frame the study of diverse aspects of social mobility in the book. How to assess the extent of social mobility in a given development context when the datasets by conventional measurement techniques are unavailable? How to identify drivers and inhibitors of social mobility in particular developing country contexts? How to acquire the knowledge required to design interventions to raise social mobility, either by increasing upward mobility or by lowering downward mobility?
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