ISBN:
9780192650733
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (506 pages)
Series Statement:
WIDER Studies in Development Economics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.513091724
Keywords:
Economic development-Developing countries
;
Social mobility-Developing countries
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Combines research from different disciplines to assess social mobility in developing countries.
Abstract:
Cover -- Book Epigraph -- Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1: The State of Knowledge about Social Mobility in the Developing World -- 1.1 Introduction: why study social mobility in developing countries? -- 1.2 The state of knowledge: conceptual and methodological challenges in developing countries -- 1.3 Inequality, poverty reduction, growth, and social mobility: what are the inter-relationships? -- 1.3.1 The relationship between inequality and social mobility: the Great Gatsby Curve -- 1.3.2 Social mobility and poverty reduction -- 1.3.3 Social mobility and economic growth -- 1.4 This volume's contributions -- References -- PART II: THEORY AND CONCEPTS -- 2: Drivers of Mobility in the Global South -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Theoretical framework -- 2.3 Determinants of social (im)mobility in developing countries -- 2.3.1 Segmented labour markets -- 2.3.2 Imperfect credit and insurance markets -- Credit constraints -- Risk and uncertainty -- 2.3.3 Information frictions -- Labour market information frictions -- Beliefs about the returns to education -- 2.4 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3: Exploring Concepts of Social Mobility -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Getting started: preliminaries, points of agreement and disagreement, and terminology and notation -- 3.2.1 Preliminaries -- The social/economic variable(s) of interest -- Context: intragenerational or intergenerational? -- 3.2.2 Points of agreement and disagreement -- 3.2.3 Terminology and notation -- 3.3 Six mobility concepts and their measures -- 3.3.1 Origin-independence -- 3.3.2 Positional movement -- 3.3.3 Share movement.
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