residential mobility is an important ecological mobility which, besides physical impacts, has contributed in shaping or reshaping of urban social milieus. the analyses of results related to a sample of 17510 households inhabiting in 40 regions of mashhad indicates that 46.9 percent of them had experienced a residential relocation during a period of ten years, the maximum of which (62.8 percent)...

A new generation of ‘behaviour-aware’ services are emerging, defining the future mobile social networks. It is important for current mobility models to capture mobile users’ behavioural characteristics and also reproduce their effects on the performance of networking protocols. Recent work in mobility modelling focused on replicating metrics of encounter statistics and spatio-temporal preferenc...

In this paper, I study the difference in intergenerational mobility patterns between indigenous and non-indigenous Mexican populations, analyzing role played by variability skin tones inside both groups. employ a composite sample based on two recent surveys with same sampling frame questionnaire design. obtained three main results rank-rank regressions transition matrices for economic education...

Introduction One of the main objectives of this volume is to engage with the long lasting debate in sociology regarding the consequences of the industrialisation process for social mobility. At the heart of this debate is the so-called 'liberal thesis of industrialisation' which states that the industrialisation process brings about not only more opportunity for social mobility, but also more e...

This paper argues that both inequality of opportunity and social mobility are necessary implications of an efficient, or optimal, societal arrangement when incentives must be provided. ∗The author thanks Marco Bassetto, V.V. Chari, Narayana Kocherlakota, and Aleh Tsyvinski for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve B...