Social mobility and inequality between groups

Patricia Funjika and Rachel Gisselquist ()

No wp-2020-12, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not only is persistence in horizontal inequality due to low intergenerational mobility overall, it argues, it also is explained by the lower mobility of disadvantaged compared with advantaged groups in many societies. Group-based discrimination, among other factors, contributes.

Keywords: Social mobility; Horizontal inequality; Ethnic inequality; Intergenerational Mobility; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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