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887989
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A broken social elevator? : : how to promote social mobility /\ OECD.
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| Publication Statement
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Paris :: OECD Publishing,, 2018.
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1 online resource (355 pages : illustrations) :: PDF file
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9264301070
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: 9789264301078
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9789264301078
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9789264301085
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Executive summary -- 1. Overview -- 2. Income dynamics and income mobility over the life course -- 3. Time is money: what drives income mobility? -- 4. From one generation to the next: mobility of socio-economic status -- 5. How parental background affects chances early in life: the transmission of health and educational outcomes -- 6. Towards social mobility-friendly policies.
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This report investigates one aspect of inequality - the issue of social mobility. It reviews data from around the world and confirms that trends in social mobility reflect wider trends in rising inequality, with families and communities in many countries trapped on the bottom rungs of the social ladder. Children in these families are even less likely now to be able to move up and improve their occupational status and earnings. For a person born into a poor family in Australia, it could take four generations for their descendants to approach the average wage. This report is part of a series by the OECD on growing inequality, and also considers how it can be addressed. Sections include: why should policy makers care; how does social mobility work?; positional mobility: sticky floors and sticky ceilings; income dynamics and income mobility over the life course; what drives income mobility?; the role of labour market trajectories; the role of household events; the role of social transfers and income taxes in smoothing income changes; from one generation to the next: mobility of socio-economic status; the link between parents' and children's social class; how parental resources affects resources at different points of the distribution; how parental background affects chances early in life: the transmission of health and educational outcomes; towards social mobility-friendly policies; and which health and family policies, education policies, labour-market policies, local development policies, and tax and transfer system designs can best foster social mobility.
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Equality-- OECD countries.
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Social mobility-- OECD countries.
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Equality.
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Social mobility.
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OECD countries.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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