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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Geographical mobility"”.
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Aspects of society in Scotland and north east England, c.1550 - c.1750: social structure, literacy and geographical mobility.
… The aspects studied are social structure, geographical mobility and literacy. Using apprentice records, marriage bonds and marriage registers a picture o f the social hierarchy of Scotland and Northern England is recovered by the use of the statistical technique of multi- dimensional …
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Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century)
… such as family and kinship organization, geographical mobility and the life cycle of individuals.' It also describes the relations between different, villages, and between the social classes composing the communities. The evidence used is derived from some of the most standardized 18th and …
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Cu' nesci, arrinesci? Mobilità sociale e mobilità geografica dei migranti interni italiani
… internal migrants. The goal is to understand if geographical mobility corresponds to social mobility, if geographical mobility is a channel through which to ensure greater social mobility, and whether migration reduces inequalities both of distributive and of relational order. I use the social …
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GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: THE IMPACT OF GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN AND MOBILITY ON LIFE CHANCES
… aims to examine how one's place of origin and geographical mobility interact with social origins to shape occupational outcomes. By embedding these factors within the Origin-Education-Destination triangle, it is possible to quantify their contributions to patterns of inequality and illuminate …
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Population Churn: The Migration Flow Of Florida
… Has the growth been for the best? While geographical mobility is frequently analyzed in terms of in-migration, out-migration, and net migration, this thesis will examine the population churn, the sum of in- and out-migration divided by population size. The simple descriptive questions in …
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Analysis of the factors influencing higher education participation
… in participation by gender and student mobility. These research themes are pertinent to policy in the provision of higher education.;The chapter 'Tuition Fees and Higher Education Participation' examines the impact of the abolition of tuition fees on higher education enrolment in …
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On Immigration, Geographic and Labour Market Mobility
… second chapter focuses on the determinants of geographical mobility of British labour market entrants over the period 1991-2008, with an emphasis on the role of education. Given the absence of an appropriate index for mobility in the data, I compute a continuous measure of distance that is then …
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Children's Songs in Nawfija Community, Southeastern Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective
… and success, (ii) English is the language of geographical mobility, and (iii) Igbo/Nawfija variety is a language of identity. The study concludes by arguing that, as a result of ideologies (i) and (ii), if these Indigenous children's songs were revitalized, possibly, not all community members …
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The chronotope of walking in the films of Andrea Arnold
… by foregrounding her protagonists’ physical and geographical mobility, using walking as their dominant mode of movement. The textual analysis draws on Laura U. Mark’s theories of haptic cinema to examine Arnold’s visual style, combined with a reading of Michel de Certeau whose work emphasises …
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Dogged Optimism: Striving and Waiting in Rural Chinese Students’ Negotiations of Social Mobility
… examines the arduous pursuit of upward social mobility among young students in a rural mountain township in Southeastern China. It explores how rural Chinese students from Watershed School (pseudonym) navigate and negotiate upward social mobility within stratified educational and social …
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Playing Hard-to-Get : The Effects of Applicant Availability on Interviewers' Impressions
… qualifications (dispositional rationale) or her geographical mobility (situational rationale). Two alternative theoretical explanations for the hard-to-get effect were tested: a social comparison and a drive reduction explanation. If the effect is base d upon a social comparison explanation, than …
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Essays on job search behavior and labor market policies
… new class of programs that aim to improve the geographical mobility of unemployed workers with respect to the job search behavior, the subsequent job finding prospects and the returns to labor market mobility. To estimate the causal impact of these programs, it is exploited that local …