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" Ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy : "
edited by Glenn C. Loury, Tariq Modoom, and Steven M. Teles.
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1046670
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b801040
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Ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy : : comparing the USA and UK /\ edited by Glenn C. Loury, Tariq Modoom, and Steven M. Teles.
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xvi, 643 pages) :: illustrations
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0511114885
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: 9780511114885
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0521923093
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9780521923095
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state: the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime / Mary J. Hickman -- American diversity and the 2000 census / Nathan Glazer -- Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of blacks in Europe and the Americas / Orlando Patterson -- Ethnicity as social capital: community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations / Min Zhou -- Intergeneration mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings / Linda Datcher Loury -- Social integration and social mobility: spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain / Ceri Peach -- Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital / David M. Cutler [and others] -- Family formation in multicultural Britain: diversity and changes / Richard Berthoud -- Educational progress for African-Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950s to the 1990s: the interaction of ancestry and class / Michael Hout -- The educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain / Tariq Modood -- Why America's black-white school achievement gap persists / Ronald F. Ferguson -- Networks and niches: the continuing significance of ethnic connections / Roger Waldinger -- Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations: immigrants in the USA and Britain / Suzanne Model -- Social mobility of ethnic minorities / Anthony Heath, Dorren McMahon -- Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment, and social mobility in postwar Britain / Vaughan Robinson, Rina Valeny -- Ethnicity and political mobilization in Britain / Tariq Modood -- Political institutions and minority mobility in the USA / Peter Skerry -- Race, state, and policy: the development of employment discrimination policy in the USA and Britain / Robert Lieberman -- Regime effects: ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy in the USA and Britain / Steven M. Teles, Robert Mickey, Fawzia S. Ahmed -- Race, inequality and justice in the USA: some social-philosophic reflections / Glenn C. Loury -- Achieving racial equality / Bhikhu Parekh.
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The causes and consequences of social mobility are a central area of study within social sciences, and the differing levels of economic development between ethnic groups is an issue of concern for policy-makers. This book provides a comparative analysis of these and related issues within the US and the UK.
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Minorities-- Government policy-- Great Britain.
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Minorities-- Government policy-- United States.
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Minorities-- Great Britain.
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Minorities-- United States.
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Social mobility-- Great Britain.
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Social mobility-- United States.
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Minorités-- Politique gouvernementale-- États-Unis.
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Minorités-- Politique gouvernementale-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Minorités-- États-Unis.
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Minorités-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Mobilité sociale-- États-Unis.
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Mobilité sociale-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Ethnizität
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Minorities-- Government policy.
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Minorities.
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Social mobility.
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Soziale Mobilität
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Minderheden.
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Overheidsbeleid.
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Sociale mobiliteit.
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Vergelijkend onderzoek.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.5/13/0941
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HN90.S65E86 2005eb
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71.12bcl
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71.62bcl
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| Added Entry
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Loury, Glenn C.
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Modood, Tariq.
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Teles, Steven Michael.
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