How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree? Some Evidence on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility from India

Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, we examine intergenerational occupational mobility in India, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. We group individuals into classes and document patterns of mobil

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Motiram, Sripad ; Singh, Ashish
Institutions:	World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University
Subject:	intergenerational mobility \| inequality of opportunity \| distributive justice \| social class

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Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number UNU-WIDER Research Paper WP2012/101 2 pages long
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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