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I believe the level of inequality, and the level of social mobility (which is probably related to the magnitude of inequality), is more important than the exist
by noelwelsh 10y ago
I believe the level of inequality, and the level of social mobility (which is probably related to the magnitude of inequality), is more important than the existence of inequality.
- cheald 10y agoAre you aware of any academic literature on the subject?
- noelwelsh 10y agoIt's not my area, but putting some keywords in Google Scholar yielded some results pretty quickly. E.g. this paper http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504850701720197 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504850701720197 "We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers' earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the late-1990s."