Social mobility in developing countries : : concepts, methods, and determinants / / edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen.

• Superior document: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
• TeilnehmendeR: Iversen, Vegard,; Krishna, Anirudh, 1958-; Sen, Kunal, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics.; Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 pages)
• Notes: This edition also issued in print: 2021.; "This is an open access publication. Except where otherwise noted, this work is distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO)"--Home page.
• Other title: Social Mobility in Developing Countries
• Audience: Specialized.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0192650726; 0191919136; 0192650734
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen.

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.