Mobility and inequality

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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? > Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: s grusky Morgan
• Assisted by: Gary Fields (Editor), Gary S Fields (Editor), Gary S. Fields (Editor), David Grusky (Editor), David B Grusky (Editor), David B. Grusky (Editor), Stephen Morgan (Editor), Stephen L Morgan (Editor), Stephen L. Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2006
• EAN: 9780804752497
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5249-7
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality (
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries