A political career for the Internet generation by O. V. Kryshtanovskaya, I. A. Lavrov

“…By this approach the typical positions from which a political career starts, the “entry points” into politics for newcomers have been identified, the valid mechanisms and institutions for upward mobility have been classified, and links with other career aspects have been revealed.The biographies of 800 officials and deputies throughout Russia (in eight federal districts) have been used and the career trajectories of representatives of government and local authorities have been analysed in the study. …”
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Highly Skilled Migrants from Post-Soviet States: Labor Mobility by Vladimir I. Mukomel

“…Vertical labor mobility is predominantly downward, and upward mobility is quite rare (downward mobility is less typical for highly skilled migrants who have received education in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus). …”
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Identity and Group Dynamics in Urban Food Systems by Neetu Choudhary

“…Drawing upon earlier field work in the city of Mumbai in India, I observe that due to identity-driven factors there are certain groups that remain disadvantaged within the food system, while there are groups that are able to attain intergenerational or intertemporal upward mobility despite having similar initial endowments. …”
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Overcoming Barriers to Women's Career Transitions: A Systematic Review of Social Support Types and Providers by Tomika W. Greer, Autumn F. Kirk

“…We investigated four types of social support—emotional, appraisal, informational, and instrumental—and their roles in five types of career transitions: school-to-work transition, upward mobility transition, transition to a new profession, transition to entrepreneurship, career re-entry transition, and transition to retirement. …”
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Do rising tides lift all boats? Racial disparities in health across the lifecourse among middle-class African-Americans and Whites by Cynthia G. Colen, Patrick M. Krueger, Bethany L. Boettner

“…We conclude that middle-class status provides restricted health returns to upward mobility for African-Americans and this differential relationship cannot be accounted for by greater exposure to early life disadvantage. …”
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Double Disadvantages: A Study of Ethnic and Hukou Effects on Class Mobility in China (1996–2014) by Yaojun Li, Yizhang Zhao

“…With regard to absolute mobility, we find that minority men had significantly lower rates of total and upward mobility than Han men, and those from rural hukou origins faced more unfavourable chances. …”
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Financiarisation et classes sociales : introduction au dossier by Benjamin Lemoine, Quentin Ravelli

“…However, since the economic crisis, the question of debt – its commodification by financial capital, as well as the forms of upward mobility, or popular over-indebtedness, that it makes possible – revives the old problem of the definition of social classes and makes it possible to understand how the relations between classes have evolved under the action of financial capital. …”
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The influence of childhood IQ and education on social mobility in the Newcastle Thousand Families birth cohort by Forrest Lynne F, Hodgson Susan, Parker Louise, Pearce Mark S

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Childhood IQ and achieved education level were significantly and independently associated with upward mobility between the ages of 5 and 49-51 years. …”
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How Much Does My Baby Cost? An Analysis of Gender Differences in Income, Career Interruption, and Child Bearing by David Dozier, Bey-Ling Sha, Masako Okura

“…Arguably, such mid-career interruption may result in less accumulation of human capital, depressed upward mobility, and differential suppression of salaries for women. …”
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Diverse Social Mobility Trajectories: Portrait of Children of New Immigrants in Taiwan by Tzung-Ruei Tsou

“…Nonetheless, there are some participants from a disadvantaged family background who have achieved upward mobility because their parents hold a positive attitude toward education and have found ways to support their education. …”
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A Short History of the Informal Economy by Jan Breman

“…Investigating their predicament zoomed in on the restructuring of peasant economies and societies to post-peasant ones. The anticipated upward mobility, which was supposed to be boosted by the bargaining power of collective action, did not materialise. …”
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“Negative Stabilization” and Factors of Population Welfare Dynamics in Post-Crisis Russia by Natalia E. Tikhonova

“…The higher an individual’s place in the social hierarchy of life chances, the higher the likelihood of him being in an upward mobility group and the lower the chances of winding up in a group with downward mobility, and vice versa. …”
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New experiences, other meanings: rethinking work in the context of informal commerce by Felipe Rangel

“…In the current context, it is possible to say that the analyses that explain involvement in informal business as a temporary solution to the experience of unemployment seem insufficient, since we have observed that a large number of workers have dedicated themselves to informal business with expectations of permanence and upward mobility. Furthermore, it is important to consider the circulation of entrepreneurial discourse when trying to understand the new meanings of work in these informal markets. …”
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A protective rung on the ladder? How past and current social status shaped changes in health during COVID-19 by Laura Upenieks, Scott Schieman, Rachel Meiorin

“…And lower cumulative SSS that sums both past and present SSS also predicts stable poor health, while perceived upward mobility over time is associated with stable good health. …”
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L’huile d’olive d’Ollioules à Versailles by Frédéric d’Agay

“…An example of this desire for upward mobility of Provençal families, the Boyer-Bandol, wealthy merchants of Ollioules in the sixteenth century, who had acceded to noble rank in the early reign of Louis XIII and some of whom were members of the parliament at Aix. …”
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Change and opportunity: the transition from primary to secondary school in rural and urban Peru by Ames, P, Rojas, V

“…The social and cultural meanings associated with education are related to a particular view of progress, upward mobility and modernisation, which involves becoming a professional and living in the city, and thus a major change in identity, especially for rural children. …”

Does downward social mobility make people more hostile towards immigrants? by Paskov, M, Präg, P, Richards, L

“…Our random-effects meta-regression models show, however, that people living in contexts of high downward mobility are more hostile towards immigrants compared to people in contexts with high upward mobility.…”

CO3+1 network formation in ultra-high pressure carbonate liquids by Wilding, M, Bingham, PA, Wilson, M, Kono, Y, Drewitt, JWE, Brooker, RA, Parise, JB

“…Although carbonate melts may still be buoyant in the lower mantle, an increased viscosity by at least three orders of magnitude will restrict the upward mobility, possibly resulting in entrainment by the down-going slab.…”

Change and Opportunity by Ames, P, Rojas, V

“…The social and cultural meanings associated with education are related to a particular view of progress, upward mobility and modernisation, which involves becoming a professional and living in the city, and thus a major change in identity, especially for rural children. …”

Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings by Jackson, M, Goldthorpe, J

“…We conclude that under present day structural conditions there can be no return to the generally rising rates of upward mobility that characterized the middle decades of the twentieth century – unless this is achieved through changing relative rates in the direction of greater equality or, that is, of greater fluidity. …”