Abstract
In this paper a tool of representation of the relative mobility is presented, that couples to the ordinary mobility table as a means of representation of the absolute mobility. From the statistical point of view it is connected to the tradition of “ransacking” mobility tables through odds ratios (Goodman, 1969), whereas the sociological inspiration came from the work of Goldthorpe (1980) on relative mobility.
The first section presents the underlying logic and the simple computations involved in the construction of the “relative mobility table” and shows the main properties of the coefficients (“generalized odds ratios”) here used for the study of the “mobility regime”. The second section discusses some other uses of the ralative mobility table data.
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Cobalti, A. A relative mobility table. Qual Quant 23, 205–220 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151904
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