Intergenerational wealth mobility in rural Bangladesh

Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father–son correlations and analyses of intergenerational transition matrices show substantial persistence in wealth even when we correct for measurement errors in parental wealth. We do not find wealth mobility to be higher between periods of a person's life than between generations. We find that the process of household division plays an important role: sons who splinter off from the father's household experience greater (albeit downward) mobility in wealth. Despite significant occupational mobility across generations, its contribution to wealth mobility, net of human capital attainment of individuals, appears insignificant. Low wealth mobility in our data is primarily explained by intergenerational persistence in educational attainment.

Social stratification and mobility in Guatemala

Includes bibliography

Estimating annual job openings resulting from occupational and geographic outmobility for states and areas /

Mode of access: Internet.

Career mobility for paraprofessionals in human service agencies.

Reprint. Originally published in 1969.

Mobility in the marketplace : case studies of programs, policies and practices that provide working women with career mobility : a report of the National Commission on Working Women /

Mode of access: Internet.

Demographic and upward mobility considerations in using an equal employment opportunity model /

"Sponsored by the Personnel and Training and the Operations Research Programs of the Office of Naval Research."

A three company study of the intra-firm mobility of blue collar and lower level white collar workers : final report /

Photocopy of: 1972 ed. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Graduate School of Management.

Income and job mobility in the early 1990's.

Mode of access: Internet.

The evolution of the occupational status in Spain: An intergenerational approach

The relationship between the socio-economic status of parents and children is referred by the literature as intergenerational social mobility. The scope of this mobility encompasses different aspects such as educational attainment, income, wealth, prestige and occupational status. In particular, intergenerational occupational mobility is an interesting topic in the economic literature because it is positively associated with the economic achievement and the professional success. Low mobility implies that human capital, skills and talent can be misallocated. As a consequence, the workers’ efforts, their motivation and productivity could be negatively affected, which would have adverse effects on the economy growth and its competitiveness. This paper attempts to carry out the study of the evolution of intergenerational social mobility in Spain during the 21st century. The methodology applied involves to associate the National Classification of Occupations (CNO-94) with the New International Socio-economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI-08), in order to establish a socio-economic hierarchy. Afterwards, once the occupational ranking is defined, we use statistic and econometric methods to assess the occupational transitions between fathers and children and to analyse the covariates’ effects on these transitions, including as explanatory variable the children’s educational attainment. Data used corresponds to the 2005 and 2011 Living Condition Survey (INE, 2005, 2011). The results of the study are displayed by distinguishing children according to their birth cohort.

Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers

[Excerpt] This book is about restoring the upward mobility of U.S. workers. Specifically it is about the one workforce-development strategy that is currently aimed at exactly that goal – the strategy of creating (or re-creating) not just jobs but also career ladders. Career-ladder strategies aim to devise explicit pathways of occupational advancement.

The fisheries of St. Lucia, West Indies

An overview of the fisheries of St. Lucia using currently available information is presented. The fisheries are entirely artisanal, characterized by relatively simple and inexpensive gears and boats. The 2,100 fishers (who land roughly 750 t per year of fish) appear socially and economically marginalized and beset by low occupational mobility. The status of the major species groups they exploit are briefly discussed, and initial indications of overfishing are noted. Consideration on both resource and resource-user situations in management of the island's fisheries is emphasized.

Getting off the escalator? A study of Scots out-migration from a global city region

Something new is happening to reverse the historical trend of skilled Scots moving to London for career progression. The Scottish population of London and the South East is falling and this despite Scots enjoying continued occupational success within the South East labour market. The authors ask why Scots are leaving the UK's main escalator region and then investigate how these migration changes can best be theorised relative to literature on the mobility of the 'new service class'. Building on Fielding's escalator region hypothesis, the authors report on recent research on longer distance flows out of the UK's main escalator region. They advance the critique of the escalator region hypothesis set out by Findlay et al and ask why people would leave a global city offering good opportunities for occupational mobility. Demographic regime change provides only a partial answer. Other explanations can be found in the changing mobilities of the new service class as they engage in what Smith has defined as 'translocal' and 'transnational' urbanism. The authors argue that Scotland's changing relationship with London and the South East may be representative of a wider set of changes in migration linkages between regional economies and global cities.

Olga Shevchenko Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist

Taking Moscow as her research ground, the author develops a conceptual understanding of the relationship between social crisis and the everyday, which lies at the heart of this study. The central theme here is the prevalence of the 'total crisis' framework, a concept which defined the postsocialist experience for the Russians. Shevchenko argues that at its basis was the experience of economic uncertainty, social dislocations, and downward occupational mobility.

A thoughtful, innovative and thought-provoking study, this book gives important insights into what proved to be one of the most dramatic episodes in Russia's recent history. It also provides an important basis for our understanding of the subsequent epoch. In particular, it helps to explain the phenomenal popularity of Vladimir Putin, who built his image on the antithesis to the 'lawless 1990s'. This book is an invaluable contribution to the study of contemporary Russia, with its multiple paradoxes and contradictions.

Reconstructing ethical conduct within financial firms

This chapter explores whether ethical cultures can be created within a financial market context. Ongoing regulatory and legal actions, and press coverage of these, suggest that a definition of ethical problems in terms of ‘rogue traders’ and ‘bad apples’ would be inadequate, since entire business areas have been resorting to collusive illegal behaviour. The concept of ‘bad barrels’ seems to capture the situation rather better: the culture of firms fails to discourage transgression and indeed supports it. Unpacking the links between regulatory objectives and the cultural settings of firms and their employees, this chapter questions the chances of success of measures such as enhanced controls on individuals and restructured reward mechanisms. Financial firms typically have very flat, nodal structures, within which traders conceptualise themselves as an elite, in contrast to back office staff and also in contrast to managers. Traders’ functions and their occupational mobility mean that their linkages and attachments may be much stronger with others outside ‘their’ firm than their firm and those within it. Performance, camaraderie and their linkages are important in all work situations, yet all the more so for traders in financial markets. Thus, whether regulators and senior management combine to send a clear and consistent message to traders – or whether the logic of the financial marketplace leads some firms to continue send conflicting or ambivalent messages to them – misconduct is likely to continue to be a tough nut to crack.

Mobilidade e consequências de longo prazo do serviço doméstico no Brasil

O trabalho doméstico é a ocupação da maioria das trabalhadoras brasileiras. São cerca de 6 milhões de mulheres empregadas nesta ocupação. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar a mobilidade ocupacional e as conseqüências em termos de rendimento destas trabalhadoras. O objetivo do trabalho é examinar até que ponto o fato de tido o primeiro emprego como empregada doméstica afeta as trabalhadoras na escolha futura de suas ocupações. Estima-se o efeito do primeiro emprego como trabalhadora doméstica sobre a probabilidade de ter a ocupação de doméstica atualmente. O método escolhido foi o de variáveis instrumentais de modo a controlar o viés de endogeneidade entre a escolha da primeira ocupação e a ocupação atual. Os instrumentos escolhidos foram: número de escolas por criança em idade escolar, número de professores por escola e PIB per capita. Supõe-se que estes instrumentos sejam proxies para os custos diretos da educação e para o custo de oportunidade das mulheres. Os resultados mostram que o fato de ter tido como primeiro emprego o trabalho doméstico aumenta a probabilidade das trabalhadoras permanecerem nesta mesma ocupação em comparação com quem não começou como doméstica. Quando o resultado é comparado com a estimação pelo Método de Mínimos Quadrados, ou seja, sem controlar por um possível viés de endogeneidade, o resultado é três vezes maior. Estes resultados sugerem uma imobilidade ocupacional onde a escolha de inserção como empregada doméstica pode levar a uma armadilha de ocupação. Para tentar identificar possíveis efeitos que a primeira ocupação de doméstica pode ter sobre os rendimentos das trabalhadoras na sua ocupação atual a estimação pelo método de mínimos quadrados mostrou que o primeiro emprego como doméstica teria como efeito diminuir em 13% os rendimentos das trabalhadoras em comparação com quem não começou como doméstica. Já a estimação pelo método de variáveis instrumentais não mostrou um efeito estatisticamente significante. Além disso, também não foram encontrados resultados estatisticamente significantes quando a amostra foi restringida apenas para trabalhadoras que não tinham a ocupação atual de doméstica. Estes resultados sugerem que apesar da imobilidade ocupacional observada, não haveria diferenças em relação do rendimento atual das trabalhadoras.