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I tend to agree: it is largely true in the US. Not so in the rest of the world (outside of the Western world), and not necessarily so in certain parts (more pre
by cema 9y ago
I tend to agree: it is largely true in the US. Not so in the rest of the world (outside of the Western world), and not necessarily so in certain parts (more precisely, social strata) in the US either, such as the ghetto.
- jellicle 9y agoHow do you reconcile your beliefs with all the evidence that income mobility is much higher elsewhere than in the USA?
- restingrobot 9y agoCan you provide factual basis for this statement?
- c0nducktr 9y agoI can. https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways-SOTU-2016-Economic-Mobility-3.pdf https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways... http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/ http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobil...
- cema 9y agoIn order to change my beliefs I would need to see the evidence.
- c0nducktr 9y agohttps://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways-SOTU-2016-Economic-Mobility-3.pdf https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways... http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/ http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobil...
- cema 9y agoHmm, the numbers in the publications are not stratified. Besides, I am not sure if the father-to-son monetary delta is the only factor to estimate the mobility. The first publication seems to study a broader set of parameters but all of them except the father-to-son thing look secondary. I wonder what the data would look like for the various strata in the American society.