Vertical mobility

About: Vertical mobility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 100 publications have been published within this topic receiving 3609 citations.

Social mobility in globalization circumstances

Abstract: In recent years in Macedonia, there has been an accelerated social stratification. The lower stratum population is constantly increasing. Laeken poverty indicators based on the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (2010) the at-risk-of-poverty-rate for unemployed persons is 50.6%, while the at-risk-of-poverty-rate for employed persons is 9.9%. The pluralism of the ‘90s began with the ideals for equal opportunities but people are now desperate and they are struggling with their own illusions. Despite the fact that many are experiencing vertical mobility, this is more a result of changes in the employment structure rather than the existence of a high level of equal opportunities. On the other hand, globalization is urging geographical mobility at large, and this makes young generations migrate in larger cities and more developed countries. The inequalities between people are becoming more evident especially the new lifestyle of the rich stratum of the society such as politicians, businesspersons, real estate owners and traders. This paper deals with issues that concern movements of entire generations based on their education level and jobs they perform, in externally highly influenced environments. Women in Macedonia are increasingly enrolling at universities and this makes them competent for many professions. However, statistical indicators show that they are not yet present enough in managerial positions in various different institutions or on the highly paid jobs lists. The salary in Macedonia are low. Blau and Duncan (2005) assert the importance of mobility for understanding modern industrial society, particularly its stratified character Through statistical data, we will attempt to prove the above-mentioned approaches. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2s2p150

A Flawed Approach to Solving the Identification Problem in the Estimation of Mobility Effect Models: A Comment on Brody and McRae

Abstract: In their recent paper in this journal, Charles J. Brody and James A. McRae, Jr. (1987) use two kinds of identifying restrictions to "solve" (that is, to get the computer program to run) the identification problem in estimating the effects of vertical mobility on emotional well-being. First, adapting a method widely used in cohort analysis (the one introduced by Mason et al. 1973), they constrain the effect of slight upward mobility to be the same as that of no mobility. Second, they constrain the effects of upward and of downward mobility to be exponential. The first restriction is based only on the knowledge that the effects of two adjacent categories of mobility cannot be very different, and the second is based neither on theory nor on empirical evidence and thus is strictly arbitrary. The purpose of this comment is to point out that when the identification problem exists, unless it is known that all of the effects of the three independent variables are nonlinear, (1) no arbitrary identifying restriction and mechanically applied statistical analysis can be relied on to provide even roughly accurate estimates of the effects, and (2) the method Brody and McRae borrow from cohort analysis cannot be relied on to give meaningful results even if the identifying restriction is only a small distortion of reality. The identification problem exists when one independent variable in an analysis is a linear function of two other independent variables, so that any linear effects of the three variables are confounded with one another.' In such a case, if the three independent variables are simply entered together in a regression equation or in any similar kind of analysis, the computer program will not run. There are, of course, numerous simplifying assumptions and transformations of the variables that will break the

Labor Mobility of Migrants from the Post-Soviet Expanse States at the Russian Labor Market

Abstract: In this chapter social, demographic, and employment profiles of labor migrants from the CIS countries and Georgia who are present at the Russian labor market currently. The principal attention is paid to the labor mobility in the aspect of types of economic activities and occupations and in the aspect of their vertical mobility according to the EGP classification. Coming to the Russian labor market migrants with experience of work are forced to change the type of economic activity and occupation. Change of job in Russia promotes upward mobility along the extent of adaptation. However, such lucky people constitute the minority. And downward mobility is specific for all groups of migrants. Neither specific skills nor knowledge of foreign laborers possess are not sought out at the Russian labor market. Particularly disturbing are the scales of foreign laborers’ “over-qualification,” a considerable part of whom are engaged at jobs that make no demand to laborer’s skill. Creation of elevators for labor migrants’ upward mobility, with taking into due attention their vocational training and skills, is in interest of not only all actors of the labor market but of the Russian society at large for it is interested in intelligible integration policy.