Explaining Poverty: On the Structural Constraints of Income Mobility

Muller attempts to unify two approaches for explaining income mobility: A structural perspective which stresses the determination of mobility behavior by exogenous structural factors and an individualistic perspective which considers mobility as a deliberate decision of an individual, often guided b...

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Published in:Social indicators research 2002-09, Vol.59 (3), p.301-319
Main Author: Muller, Georg P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Achievement Need
Basic Skills
Educational Attainment
Free will
Helplessness
History, theory and methodology
Income
Income mobility
Inequality
Labor market
Legends
Linear regression
Locus of Control
Low Income Groups
Men
Methodology
Mobility
Opportunity Structures
Personal income
Poverty
Poverty line
Research methods
Social conditions & trends
Social indicators
Social inequality
Social Mobility
Social Stratification
Social Structure
Sociology
Statistical analysis
Structural aspects
Switzerland
Trade and industrial education
Upward mobility
Working Class
Working poor
Working women
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Summary:Muller attempts to unify two approaches for explaining income mobility: A structural perspective which stresses the determination of mobility behavior by exogenous structural factors and an individualistic perspective which considers mobility as a deliberate decision of an individual, often guided by motivational factors. Consequently, he distinguishes between two kinds of poverty: Poverty caused by structural constraints below the poverty line and poverty as a result of the underutilization of structural chances.
ISSN:0303-8300
1573-0921
DOI:10.1023/A:1019676515240