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Downward Mobility (downward + mobility)

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Selected Abstracts

Even the ,Rich' are Vulnerable: Multiple Shocks and Downward Mobility in Rural Uganda

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 1 2005
Kate Bird
Poverty data rarely capture processes of change, limiting our ability to understand poverty trajectories at the individual or household levels. This article uses a household survey, village-level participatory studies and indepth life-history interviews to examine people's poverty trajectories and to identify what drives and maintains chronic poverty. Composite shocks can propel previously non-poor households into severe and long-term poverty. Poverty is hard to escape, and people born into chronically poor households find few opportunities for accumulation and wealth creation. The analysis highlights the importance of poverty interrupters, including the end of conflict and the re-integration of internally displaced people, and suggests that state-led interventions would be needed to provide real opportunities to the chronically poor. [source]

Poverty and Downward Mobility in the Land of Opportunity

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2001
Catherine Kingfisher
Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence. Katherine S. Newman. Berkeley; University of California Press, 1999. 328 pp. "So You Think. Drive. Cadillac?": Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform. Karen Seccombe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. 246 PP. Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness. Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 132 pp. [source]

The likelihood of a basic income in Germany

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 3 2008
Michael Opielka
Abstract The article discusses whether the likelihood of Germany introducing a basic income policy , that is independent of labour market participation , has increased in recent years. A brief description of the main elements of the German welfare state is followed by a critical analysis of more recent developments in guaranteeing a basic income, not least with the 2003 merger of unemployment benefits and social assistance. Since then the resulting fears of downward mobility felt even by the middle classes have reignited the 1980's debate about a basic income. Two models (the "basic income guarantee" and the "solidarity citizen's income") are used to discuss practical system design problems and the chances of realizing a basic income policy. [source]

Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings1

THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 4 2007
John H. Goldthorpe
Abstract In Britain in recent years social mobility has become a topic of central political concern, primarily as a result of the effort made by New Labour to make equality of opportunity rather than equality of condition a focus of policy. Questions of the level, pattern and trend of mobility thus bear directly on the relevance of New Labour's policy analysis, and in turn are likely be crucial to the evaluation of its performance in government. However, politically motivated discussion of social mobility often reveals an inadequate grasp of both empirical and analytical issues. We provide new evidence relevant to the assessment of social mobility , in particular, intergenerational class mobility , in contemporary Britain through cross-cohort analyses based on the NCDS and BCS datasets which we can relate to earlier cross-sectional analyses based on the GHS. We find that, contrary to what seems now widely supposed, there is no evidence that absolute mobility rates are falling; but, for men, the balance of upward and downward movement is becoming less favourable. This is overwhelmingly the result of class structural change. Relative mobility rates, for both men and women, remain essentially constant, although there are possible indications of a declining propensity for long-range mobility. We conclude that under present day structural conditions there can be no return to the generally rising rates of upward mobility that characterized the middle decades of the twentieth century , unless this is achieved through changing relative rates in the direction of greater equality or, that is, of greater fluidity. But this would then produce rising rates of downward mobility to exactly the same extent , an outcome apparently unappreciated by, and unlikely to be congenial to, politicians preoccupied with winning the electoral ,middle ground'. [source]