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Examining the Structure of Opportunity and Social Mobility i
Rising inequality alongside rapid economic growth reinforces the need to examine patterns of social mobility in India. Are children from less well-off sections also able to rise to higher-paying positions, newly created by the growing economy, or are these positions mainly accessible to established...
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| 100 | |a Krishna, Anirudh | ||
| 245 | |a Examining the Structure of Opportunity and Social Mobility i |c Who Becomes an Engineer? / Krishna, Anirudh. | ||
| 260 | |c 2014 | ||
| 300 | |a 1-28 | ||
| 520 | |a Rising inequality alongside rapid economic growth reinforces the need to examine patterns of social mobility in India. Are children from less well-off sections also able to rise to higher-paying positions, newly created by the growing economy, or are these positions mainly accessible to established elites? Powered in particular by the software industry, no sector has grown as fast as engineering in India. Examining the social origins of students at a range of engineering colleges, including higher- and lower-ranked ones, provides a useful lens for understanding how the new opportunities have availed different social segments. These results provide some grounds for optimism: women, scheduled castes, and sons and daughters of agriculturists have improved upon historical trends. However, the rural-urban divide remains deep: the more rural one is, the lower are one's chances of getting into any engineering college. Multiple simultaneous handicaps - being poor and rural or scheduled caste and rural | ||
| 650 | |a India | ||
| 650 | |a Inequality | ||
| 650 | |a Poverty | ||
| 650 | |a Social Mobility | ||
| 773 | |a Development and Change |d January | ||
| 999 | |c 41720 |d 41720 | ||