title: Inter-generational occupational mobility and population heterogeneity:  a statistical analysis.
abstract: "In the present paper an attempt is made to study the inter-generational occupational mobility in three types of developing villages [in India] that are heterogeneous in many socio-economic and other aspects.  The specific objectives of this study are:  (i) to study the overall occupational mobility of fathers-sons and to find out the predicted equilibrium structure, (ii) to find the waiting time (number of generations) that sons will stay in their fathers' occupational state before moving to other ones and (iii) to test the hypothesis of identical class structures in these three types of heterogeneous societies."  The data are from a 1978 sample survey, and "the basic simple time-homogeneous Markov Chain model by Prais (1955) is employed...."
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005220:Fathers; D007194:India; D009679:Nuclear Family; D010290:Parents; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012919:Social Behavior; D012922:Social Change; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Asia; Behavior; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Employment Status; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Fathers; Heterogeneity; India; Occupational Status--changes; Parents; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Report; Social Behavior; Social Change; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status--changes; Sons; Southern Asia; Time Factors