Comparing Social Mobility

Social Mobility - Education

be one of the main barriers which stop people moving out of poverty. Yet studies indicate that poorer children are still failing to achieve their educational potential. How should these continuing inequalities be addressed? Policies that focus on early years, greater ‘school readiness’ and support for parents are clearly important but research also points to the multiple structural problems tha...

Social Mobility in Europe

Social mobility and fertility

Intraand inter-generational social mobility have in the past played an important role in attempts to explain fertility behaviour, and continue to do so today. The opinions expressed by social scientists in the first part of the 20th century are renewed and confirmed. More specifically: (1) intra-generational social mobility has been reinforced by the personal well-being aspirations and job care...

Education and social mobility

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A Constructing and Comparing User Mobility Profiles

Nowadays, the accumulation of people’s whereabouts due to location-based applications has made it possible to construct their mobility profiles. This access to users’ mobility profiles subsequently brings benefits back to location-based applications. For instance, in on-line social networks, friends can be recommended not only based on the similarity between their registered information, e.g., ...