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I think perhaps the US makes it hard for a single person to move from bottom to top quintile. But I bet that the US is the country that makes it the easiest for
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
I think perhaps the US makes it hard for a single person to move from bottom to top quintile. But I bet that the US is the country that makes it the easiest for you to be in the bottom quintile and have grandchildren in the top quintile.
Basically, I think the US is likely the best for generational family mobility. I have seen this story many times with immigrants. The immigrants come over and work often very menial jobs. Their kids study hard and go to colleges and end up as white collar jobs. Their kids in turn (the grandkids) often go to elite colleges and end up with elite careers (lawyers, doctors, etc).
- rowanajmarshall 5y ago> Basically, I think the US is likely the best for generational family mobility. I have seen this story many times with immigrants What makes you think this doesn't happen so much in other countries?
- refurb 5y agoBecause in many countries, you'll always be an outsider.
- jeffbee 5y agoLiterally the entire point of the paper is that the U.S. has the worst intergenerational bottom-to-top quintile probability among the five nations, U.K., France, Italy, and Sweden being the others, but Americans believe that the probability is much higher than it really is, as you have just amply demonstrated.
- brandonmenc 5y agoIt's hard to convince large swathes of progressive America of this fact. Lots of possible cause/effect: child-free lifestyles, exalting the even modestly well-off who choose to leave their children nothing, long-established families who have lost a living connection to their immigrant forebears, etc. "Families are always rising and falling in America."