Social mobility and inequalities

Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out Of ...

New research from Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine finds that greater income gaps between those at the bottom and middle of the income distribution lead ...

What We Know About Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in the ...

There are unresolved questions regarding the extent to which rising inequality affects social mobility. Is upward mobility still a defining characteristic of ...

Economic despair: The vicious circle of inequality and social mobility

We investigate whether high income inequality and low social mobility lead young people from lower socioeconomic status (SES) households to drop out of high ...

Social mobility and equal opportunity | OECD

Social mobility refers to how a person's socio-economic situation improves or declines relative to that of their parents or throughout their lifetime.

How Is Social Mobility Related to Inequality?

In this interview, Yonatan Berman discusses his research on the interrelationships among absolute mobility, relative mobility, growth, and inequality.

Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Economic Freedom

Much evidence has found associations between high income inequality and lower intergenerational mobility.

Wealth Inequality Is a Barrier to Education and Social Mobility

The US wealth gap is fueling a gap in education and upward mobility. In addition to income, wealth can buy educational achievement through ...

U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes - Equitable Growth

Building on prior research, some new studies demonstrate that there is a relationship between high levels of inequality and low levels of ...

Current challenges to social mobility and equality of opportunity

The current economic environment, the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing megatrends, such as digitalisation and the green transformation, ...

Social Mobility - Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

The purpose of the Social Mobility RG is to develop and exploit new administrative sources for measuring mobility and the effects of policy on mobility out of ...

Economic mobility and inequality | Urban Institute

Prospects for economic mobility in the labor market have stagnated over recent decades, widening wage and income inequality and exacerbating racial ...

Social mobility perceptions and inequality acceptance - ScienceDirect

In fact, the absence of a link between beliefs about the determinants of success and perceived social mobility suggests that respondents find the persistence of ...

Mobility and Inequality | Stanford University Press

Mobility and Inequality · How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? · "This volume is the best source for ...

Income Inequality Matters, but Mobility Is Just as Important

While not a perfect relationship, the upward slope of the curve indicates a negative correlation between income inequality and mobility.

Wealth inequality and social mobility: A simulation-based modelling ...

Based on the thought experiments in the previous section, we conclude that capital (human or physical) exacerbates wealth inequality, while tax and growth ...

Current challenges to social mobility and equality of opportunity

Equality of opportunity, horizontal inequalities and social mobility are distinct but related concepts that can be measured in terms of economic standing, e.g. ...

Inequality and Social Mobility | IPS Research Programme

This research programme examines developments in this area, and considers measures to limit the negative trends.

Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out of ...

Social mobility is a concept that includes the likelihood of moving up or down in the income distribution, which is specifically labeled as economic ...

Social mobility and inequalities | University of Cape Town

Social mobility – which is the ability of a person or a household to move between social groups and social classes in a society during their lifetime ...

UK Social Mobility — A Tough Climb - Goldman Sachs Research

This phenomenon exacerbates social inequality as it means that disadvantaged individuals are less likely to climb up the income ladder and those ...