Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key?

Jerrim, John; Macmillan, Lindsey

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“…To further consider the properties of parental education, I have investigated its association with permanent earnings using the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (a longitudinal data set from the US) and found a correlation of 0.58. Further evidence on how intergenerational mobility estimates differ when using parental education rather than parental income can be found in Jerrim and Macmillan ().…”

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The Link between Family Background and Later Lifetime Income: How Does the UK Compare with Other Countries?

Jerrim¹

2016

Fiscal Studies

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The link between family background and labour market outcomes is an issue of great academic, social and political concern. It is frequently claimed that such intergenerational associations are stronger in Britain than in other countries. But is this really true? I investigate this issue by estimating the link between parental education and later lifetime income, using three cross-nationally comparable data sets covering more than 30 countries. My results suggest that the UK is broadly in the middle of the cross-country rankings, with intergenerational associations notably stronger than in Scandinavia but weaker than in eastern Europe. Overall, I find limited support for claims that family background is a greater barrier to economic success in Britain than in other parts of the developed world. Policy pointsr Previous work has offered conflicting messages regarding the strength of the association between the socio-economic circumstances of parents and children in the UK compared with other countries. I * Submitted April 2014. r The similarity of my findings across data sets and measures of socioeconomic background is striking. My results suggest that the UK sits in the middle of the cross-country rankings, with lower levels of mobility than a number of western countries -including Scandinavia, but also Australia, Canada and Germany -and higher levels of mobility than the United States and much of eastern Europe.r These results hold for offspring with average earnings. Comparing individuals who end up lower down the earnings distribution shows that the effect of parental socio-economic background is stronger in the UK than in most other countries, suggesting that higher socio-economic-status families in the UK are particularly good at preventing significant downward mobility for their children.

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The Link between Family Background and Later Lifetime Income: How Does the UK Compare with Other Countries?

Jerrim¹

2016

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“…To do so, we chose escolaridad as a proxy. In Chile, at least, there is a well-known strong correlation between formal education and income distribution and inequality [18,19]. Moreover, the variable escolaridad weighs heavily in the calculation of the Human Development Index (HDI), which is a widely used indicator of wellness and quality of life, that in turn can be used to get a first, qualitative proof of the soundess of our results (a map of Santiago HDI distribution at the level of municipalities can be seen in Fig.…”

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News and the city: understanding online press consumption patterns through mobile data

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The always increasing mobile connectivity affects every aspect of our daily lives, including how and when we keep ourselves informed and consult news media. By studying mobile web data, provided by one of the major Chilean telecommunication companies, we investigate how different cohorts of the population of Santiago De Chile consume news media content through their smartphones. We address the issue of inequalities in the access to information, trying to understand to what extent socio-demographic factors impact the preferences and habits of the users.

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“…For objective mobility in Model 1, the results suggest that socially mobile individuals in more unequal societies are less likely to declare that poverty is the result of inevitability of life or individuals' bad luck than that poverty is caused by social injustice. Since the earlier research suggests that the level of social mobility is negatively associated with income inequality (see Andrews & Leigh, 2009;Jerrim & Macmillan, 2015), perhaps mobile individuals in countries with high Gini coefficients are more aware of the structural conditions that hinder their fellow citizens' life chances. More telling cross-level interaction effects are observed in Model 2.…”

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Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Comparative Perspective

Gugushvili

2016

Soc Just Res

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This article explores the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on perceptions of popular explanations of poverty. It is hypothesised that those who experience improvements in socio-economic status through social mobility are more likely to blame poverty on individual characteristics such as laziness and lack of willpower and are less likely to attribute failure to injustice in society, and on the macro-level, the effect of social mobility on perceptions of popular explanations of poverty is moderated by contextual environment. The described hypotheses are tested by using multinomial and multilevel logistic regressions and two complementary datasets-European Values Studies and the Life in Transition Survey. The derived findings suggest that social mobility is indeed associated with perceptions of individual blame and social blame of why some people are in need. However, these effects are manifested primarily among subjectively mobile individuals and are also conditioned by the legacy of socialism and the level of economic development of countries where individuals reside.

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Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key?

Abstract: for comments and useful insights. We would like to thank the following groups for their funding support: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). ES/ K00817X/1. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by The

Cited by 177 publications

References 40 publications

The Link between Family Background and Later Lifetime Income: How Does the UK Compare with Other Countries?

The Link between Family Background and Later Lifetime Income: How Does the UK Compare with Other Countries?

News and the city: understanding online press consumption patterns through mobile data

Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Comparative Perspective

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