vertical mobility

(noun)

Movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socioeconomic level to another, often by changing jobs or through marriage.

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Examples of vertical mobility in the following topics:

  • Social Mobility

    • When a person born to poor parents becomes a well-educated, wealthy businessperson, this is an example of upward vertical social mobility.
    • Downward vertical social mobility occurs when a person loses status, which may occur through disgrace — Bernie Madoff was a successful, high status Wall Street executive until he was indicted and sentenced to prison time, at which point he fell from his high social position.
    • Historical events can thus alter the extent of social mobility seen in countries.
    • Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility—movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socio-economic level to another, often by changing jobs or marriage.
    • Recent data shows that of nine developed countries, the United States and United Kingdom have the lowest intergenerational vertical social mobility, with about half of the advantages of having a parent with a high income passed on to the next generation.

  • Types of Social Mobility

    • Social mobility can be vertical and horizontal, absolute and relative, and between generations.
    • Vertical social mobility refers to moving up or down the so-called social ladder.
    • The British middle class thus experienced absolute upward mobility.
    • Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals or groups in social position over time.
    • Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility, which is the movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socioeconomic level to another, often by changing jobs or through marriage.

  • Defining and Measuring Economic Mobility

    • This concept of economic mobility is often considered in conjunction with 'social mobility', which is the capacity for an individual to change station within a society.
    • Relative:Relative mobility, as the name implies, measures the mobility and economic growth of a particular person within the context of the system in which they work.
    • Closely related to the concept of economic mobility is that of socioeconomic mobility, which refers to the ability to move vertically from one social or economic class to another.
    • This is called "vertical" mobility, which overlaps substantially with the categories discussed above.
    • Economists studying economic mobility have identified a number of factors that play an integral role in enabling (or blocking) participants in an economic system from achieving mobility.

  • Social Mobility

    • Social mobility is the movement of an individual or group from one social position to another over time.
    • Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals or groups in social positions over time.
    • Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility, movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socio-economic level to another, often by changing jobs or marriage.
    • Nonetheless, social mobility can also refer to horizontal mobility, movement from one position to another within the same social level, as when someone changes between two equally prestigious occupations.
    • Societies present different opportunities for mobility depending on their systems of value.

  • Social Mobility in the U.S.

    • Strong social and economic mobility is considered part of American Dream, though there is relatively low social mobility in the U.S.
    • This "vertical" mobility can be the change in socioeconomic status between parents and children ("inter-generational"), or over the course of a lifetime ("intra-generational").
    • The limit to women's and minorities' upward mobility is called the glass ceiling.
    • In the United States, white males have greater social mobility than women and racial/ethnic minorities, whose mobility is limited by the glass ceiling.
    • Explain how the "glass ceiling" and other factors lower social mobility in the United States

  • Mobile Marketing

    • Mobile marketing is the practice of promoting brands over mobile devices such as smartphones, portable media players and tablets.
    • Brands are able to both send and receive rich content through MMS A2P (application-to-person) mobile networks to mobile subscribers.
    • Game mobile marketing provides additional opportunities for brands looking to deliver promotional messaging within mobile games.
    • Some companies sponsor entire games to drive consumer engagement, a practice known as mobile advergaming or ad-funded mobile gaming.
    • Mobile content advertising schemes provided by the likes of Yahoo!

  • Moving from Short-Run to Long-Run

    • The long-run curve is perfectly vertical, which reflects economists' belief that changes in aggregate demand only temporarily change an economy's total output.
    • Also, capital is not fully mobile between sectors.
    • There is also full mobility of labor and capital between sectors of the economy.

  • Periodic Trends in Metallic Properties

    • The rows are aligned in such a way that the elements in each vertical column share certain characteristics.
    • In effect, the electropositive nature of the metallic atoms allows their valence electrons to exist as a mobile fluid.

  • The Vertical Line Test

    • The vertical line test is used to determine whether a curve on an $xy$-plane is a function.
    • If, alternatively, a vertical line intersects the graph no more than once, no matter where the vertical line is placed, then the graph is the graph of a function.
    • Apply the vertical line test to determine which graphs represent functions.
    • Note that in the top graph, a single vertical line would intersect the curve 3 times.
    • The vertical line test demonstrates that a circle is not a function.

  • The Strengths and Weaknesses of Digital-Mobile