Measuring Social Mobility as Unpredictability

Economica

Volumn 68, Issue 269, 2001, Pages 63-76

  Parker, Simon C ^a   Rougier, Jonathan ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0035050756     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0335.00233     Document Type: Article

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