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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: New markets, new opportunities? Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace : Brookings Institution Press, c2000 (OCoLC)652388430 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nancy Birdsall; Carol Graham; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. |
| ISBN: | 081570917X 9780815709176 |
| OCLC Number: | 42476804 |
| Description: | x, 331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part 1, Issues and concepts. Mobility and markets: conceptual issues and policy questions / Nancy Birdsall and Carol Graham -- Opportunity in the United States: myth or reality? / Isabel V. Sawhill -- Reflections on mobility and social justice, economic efficiency, and individual responsibility / Joseph E. Stiglitz. Part II, Defining and measuring mobility. Social mobility: concepts and measurement / Jere R. Behrman -- Income mobility: concepts and measures / Gary S. Fields. Part III, Economics and opportunity. Intergenerational mobility in Latin America: deeper markets and better schools make a difference / Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, and Miguel Székely -- Worker mobility and transition to a market economy: winners and losers / Katherine Terrell -- Inequality, growth, and political stability: can income mobility provide the answers? / David E. Hojman. Part IV, Politics and perceptions. The political economy of mobility: perceptions and objective trends in Latin America / Carol Graham -- Pilot survey on household perceptions of mobility: Peru 1998 / Richard Webb -- Mobility and perceived change in life chances in postcommunist countries / Petr Matějů. |
| Responsibility: | Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, editors. |
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