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Absolute Mobility

Absolute Mobility is a measure of social mobility that assesses whether individuals achieve higher socioeconomic status than their parents, typically evaluated through changes in income, occupation, or education across generations, with the distinguishing feature that it compares outcomes relative to a fixed standard of living rather than to others within the same generation.

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10.6K

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338

Authors

189

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2017–2026

43

Variants

Absolute Social Mobility

Parents

Publications

163

The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940

Raj Chetty, David B. Grusky, Maximilian Hell et al. · Science · 2017 · 988 citations · Full text

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Falling from grace: the experience of downward mobility in the American middle class

Choice Reviews Online · 1989 · 312 citations

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Intergenerational Mobility in Britain

Lorraine Dearden, Stephen Machin, Howard Reed · The Economic Journal · 1997 · 292 citations

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Unequal But Fluid: Social Mobility in Chile in Comparative Perspective

Florencia Torche · American Sociological Review · 2005 · 275 citations

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Social Mobility in Britain.

T. S. Simey, D. V. Glass · Economica · 1955 · 273 citations

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Authors

338

  1. JH
    John H. Goldthorpe

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    12 publications · 1.4K citations

    12

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  2. PH
    Peter Hänggi

    University of Augsburg, Germany

    8 publications · 725 citations

    8

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  3. PR
    Peter Reimann

    Bielefeld University, Germany

    8 publications · 358 citations

    8

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  4. AA
    Alexandre A. Shvartsburg

    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

    8 publications · 364 citations

    8

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  5. RE
    Ralf Eichhorn

    Bielefeld University, Germany

    7 publications · 345 citations

    7

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Institutions

189

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    988 citations

  2. University of Augsburg

    Augsburg, Germany

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    572 citations

  4. Bielefeld University

    Bielefeld, Germany

    7 h-index

    22 publications

    556 citations

  5. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Richland, United States

    5 h-index

    18 publications

    1K citations

  6. Institute of Physics

    Warsaw, Poland

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    607 citations

  7. University of Silesia in Katowice

    Katowice, Poland

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    607 citations

  8. World Bank Group

    Washington D.C., United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    158 citations

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Venues

  1. Physical Review E

    PRE · 7 publications · 290 citations

    7

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  2. British Journal of Sociology

    BJS · 6 publications · 714 citations

    6

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 5 publications · 75 citations

    5

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  4. Analytical Chemistry

    5 publications · 189 citations

    5

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  5. Sociology

    5 publications · 309 citations

    5

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