SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATE INDUSTRIALIZING NATIONS

PI: Hiroshi Ishida, University of Tokyo

- Project Guidelines (as established after first team meeting, February 2005)

- Team Members:

Brazil: Carlos Costa-Ribeiro (carloscr@uerj.br), and Celi Scalon (cscalon@iuperj.br)

Chile: Florencia Torche (florencia.torche@nyu.edu)

China: Xiaogang Wu (sowu@ust.hk), and Yu Xie (yuxie@isr.umich.edu)

Japan: Hiroshi Ishida (ishida@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Shin Arita (arita.shin@nifty.ne.jp), Satoshi Miwa (miwa@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Yoshimichi Sato (ysato@sal.tohoku.ac.jp).

Korea: Jongchun Cha (chajc@yurim.skku.ac.kr), and Hyunjoon Park (hypark@sas.upenn.edu)

Taiwan: Kuo-hsien Su (khsu@ntu.edu.tw), Wei-hsin Yu (whyu@mail.utexas.edu)

 

- Resources:

- Basic information by country. Occupation, education, industry, etc. info 1950-2000

- Surveys' description (by country)

- How to use UNIDIFF model and core model of social fluidity (CSF) to compare mobility tables.

Ancillary file: Example of how to use UNIDIFF and CSF (excel file)

 

- Papers:

- "Social Mobility and Education in Postwar Japan" Hiroshi Ishida and Satoshi Miwa. Paper presented at the Research Committee in Stratification and Mobility RC28 ISA meeting, UCLA August 2005.