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Mobility Regimes and Generative Mechanisms: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and the United States.
- Source :
- European Sociological Review; Sep1997, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p179-198, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of the intergenerational mobility regimes observed in Italy and the United States in the middle of the 1980s. First, I propose a theoretical model that accounts for mobility propensities in terms of underlying generative mechanisms. This model is then operationalized, translated into a hybrid log-linear model for frequencies, and fitted to the pertinent mobility tables to verify whether (a) the observed data offer evidence in favour of the existence of the hypothesized mechanisms; and (b) cross- sex and/or cross-national dissimilarities in the action of such mechanisms do exist. The analysis shows that (a) all the hypothesized mechanisms contribute to generating the observed mobility regimes; (b) general resources and the objective desirability of classes account for most of the variation in mobility propensities observed in the two countries under study; (c) in both countries, men and women are characterized by the same mobility regime, except that women are less likely to inherit their father's business; (d) compared with the United States, Italy is characterized by a substantially higher degree of class inequality in terms of mobility chances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMPARATIVE studies
INTERNAL migration
AMERICAN men
EQUALITY
HUMAN mechanics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02667215
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Sociological Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 14789963
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a018211