Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229203 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2019/96
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper discusses current methods for measuring and analysing occupational mobility, and the way in which methods designed for the analysis of developing countries may need to be modified when applied in other contexts. The paper discusses particular features of some developing societies, such as their large and complex agricultural and informal sectors, and the problem of 'equivalence of meaning', which arises when stratification systems involve rather different institutional arrangements, for example with respect to land tenure. The paper concludes with a discussion of absolute and relative mobility in Chile, China, Egypt, and India, bringing out both the similarities and the differences between these countries in their absolute and relative rates of mobility and intersectionality with gender.
Subjects: 
Absolute mobility
Relative mobility
Concepts and definitions
Measurement
Methodology
Occupational mobility
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-732-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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