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


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared vertical mobility in Dublin and England and Wales as displayed in mobility tables using the seven class categories developed by Goldthorpe (1980) and showed that relative mobility chances are distributed in a cross-nationally similar fashion, while allowing for the existence of crossnational differences in absolute mobility flows.
Abstract: This paper compares vertical mobility in Dublin and England and Wales as displayed in mobility tables using the seven class categories developed by Goldthorpe (1980). A model is developed * which demonstrates the pattern of vertical mobility in each country and also allows us to measure the extent of class inheritance as distinct from class self-recruitment. The data are used to test the FJH thesis, and some differences between Dublin and England and Wales - in their degree of'openness' and in the relative standings of the different classes - are examined.. Patterns of relative mobility are found to differ quite strongly between the two with Dublin being considerably less open than England and Wales. In recent years two main approaches have been taken in testing the modification of the Lipset-Zetterberg thesis advanced by Featherman, Lancaster-Jones and Hauser.l The original Lipset-Zetterberg thesis stated that 'the overall pattern of social mobility appears to be much the same in the industrial societies of various western countries'2 while the revision of Featherman, Lancaster-Jones and Hauser, which we term the FJH thesis (following Erikson, Goldthorpe and Portocarero),3 claims that relative mobility chances are distributed in a crossnationally similar fashion, while allowing for the existence of crossnational differences in absolute mobility flows. In other words, the FJH thesis allows for cross-population variation in the marginal distribution of fathers' and sons' occupations (origins and destinations) but hypothesizes broadly similar patterns of association between * . . . Orlglns anc . c .estlnatlons. The two approaches commonly taken in examining the FJH thesis are, firstly, the comparative analysis of a large number of relatively small tables;4 and, secondly, the examination of a smaller number of somewhat larger tables, permitting more detailed investigation of mobility patterns.5 This paper presents an example of the latter kind

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TL;DR: A generic framework for mobility modeling and performance analysis of integrated heterogeneous networks using phase-type distributions realizing all modeling requirements in next-generation user mobility including accuracy, analytical tractability, and accommodating the correlation between different residence times within different access technologies is presented.
Abstract: Integration of different wireless radio cellular technologies is emerging as an effective approach to accommodate the increasing demand of next-generation multimedia-based applications. In such systems user roaming among different technologies, commonly known as vertical handoff, will significantly affect different aspects of network design and planning due to the characteristically wide-ranging diversity in access technologies and supported applications. Hence, the development of new mobility models that accurately depict vertical mobility is crucial for studying different design problems in these heterogeneous systems. This article presents a generic framework for mobility modeling and performance analysis of integrated heterogeneous networks using phase-type distributions. This framework realizes all modeling requirements in next-generation user mobility including accuracy, analytical tractability, and accommodating the correlation between different residence times within different access technologies. Additionally, we present general guidelines to evaluate application performance based on the new mobility models introduced in this article. We show the accuracy of our modeling approach through simulation and analysis given different applications.

19 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of obstruction of upward mobility in the USA due to lack of continuous economic expansion, especially in industrial employment, restriction of membership in professional, business, and workers groups on any basis except competence, and limitation of educational opportunities and other aids to acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for higher ranks.
Abstract: sally available the level of the whole population rises. Each stratum may or may not keep its original relative rank. This process in which the societal level is raised has been characteristic of America. Each stratum has improved its level of living in terms of consumption items, more opportunities for education, better health and other factors which make up the good life. The absence or closure of channels which facilitate upward movement might be considered as obstructive of mobility. Some major barriers would be: (1) lack of continuous economic expansion, especially in industrial employment; (2) restriction of membership in professional, business, and workers groups on any basis except competence; and (3) limitation of educational opportunities and other aids to acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for higher ranks. If the channels for vertical mobility are absent and if a large number of people possess a strong desire for improved status, they either greatly modify their aims, or tensions are created which threaten the social order. Mobility depends not only on opportunities available but also on personality organization and motivation. Of several, two pertinent questions may be asked here. How does the level of aspiration and the level of achievement vary from one stratum to another? What part does temperament, social experience, accident, and group pressure play in influencing one's ambitions and goals? Among other things the individual who is upwardly mobile must be flexible and must desire to learn the new ways of behaving required of him at higher levels.

17 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effect of occupational mobility on participation in primary interpersonal relations and found that mobility was associated with a lower frequency of visiting with siblings, both the respondent's and his wife's.
Abstract: The proposition that intragenerational occupational mobility inhibits participation in informal (primary) interpersonal relations is explored. The major contrast was assumed to be between mobile and nonmobile individuals and not between socioeconomic strata or due to the direction of mobility (up vs. down). Hypotheses were formulated and tested using data from an area-probability sample of white males, ages 55 to 64, living in Providence, Rhode Island. With present socioeconomic level controlled, mobility was found to be related to a lower frequency of visiting with siblings, both the respondent's and his wife's. This relationship was not found in the case of nonrelated friends and neighbors where no major differences appeared. In a few instances there even appeared to be a slight increase in the frequency of visiting for mobile respondents. Mobile individuals were also found to have friendships of shorter duration than nonmobile individuals. These findings would seem to indicate disruption of friendship ties in the past, but not a permanent lessening of participation in such relationships. O ne of the most intriguing aspects of social mobility is the possible consequences of mobility for individuals who are socially mobile. There is a growing body of material concerned with the relationship of occupational mobility and one of the many consequences which has been linked to vertical mobility, social isolation. It was long ago contended that social mobility results in isolation, or at least in the dis;ruption of integration of primaryand secondary-group structures (cf. Durkheim, 1951:252-254; Sorokin, 1927; Janowitz, 1956). This belief in the disruptive and disorganizing effect of mobility has led to formulation of the proposition that one consequence of mobility is the interference with participation in informal and formal interpersonal relationships. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Attempts to explain the contention that mobility has an inhibiting effect for interpersonal relations have taken two major lines of reasoning, even if only implicitly. One reason given for disruption and interference with full participation is what has been called "status by association" (Litwak, 1960). As an individual's status is related not only to the social (prestige) position he occupies but is also further enhanced by association with individuals of equal or greater social position, the mobile individual who has moved differentially when compared to those around him * This report is based on data collected as part of the research for my Ph.D. dissertation. The research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (GS-1533). In connection with the original research, I wish to acknowledge the suggestions and .advice of Professors Robert M. Marsh, Sidney Goldstein, and Robert von der Lippe. Any and all errors are, however, my own. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.28 on Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:29:23 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

14 citations


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