The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility After 1980

Davis, Jonathan M.; Mazumder, Bhashkar

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“…At the same time, individuals growing up in poor families have found it increasingly difficult to exit poverty later in life. Economic opportunity-the ability to achieve upward socioeconomic mobility regardless of one's background -has declined dramatically, particularly for those entering the US labor market in the early 1980s and thereafter [6,7].…”

Section: Worsening Economic Outcomes In the Usmentioning

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Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence

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• The United States is in the midst of a 40-year-long population health crisis. Life expectancy has declined since 2014, an unprecedented event that has followed on the heels of a decades-long slowing in secular gains in longevity in the US relative to peer countries. These adverse population health trends appear to be primarily driven by worsening health among working-age individuals of lower socioeconomic status. • A growing body of research suggests that worsening economic outcomes-e.g., fading employment opportunities and increasing economic insecurity-may be a primary causal driver of adverse health trends among low-income and less-educated workingage US residents.

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“… The research literature on relative mobility in the US is unresolved on the matter of both trend in class mobility (Mitnik, Cumberworth and Grusky ) and economic mobility (e.g., Davis and Mazumder ; Chetty et al ). The corresponding literature on relative mobility in the UK suggests, by contrast, a decline in economic mobility (e.g., Blanden, Goodman, Gregg and Machin ) and a rough stability or even increase in class mobility (Buscha and Sturgis ; Bukodi et al ; Goldthorpe and Jackson ; Goldthorpe and Mills ). …”

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A post‐liberal theory of stratification

Jackson

Grusky

2018

British Journal of Sociology

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The iconic ‘liberal theory’ of stratification fails to attend to the many types of downward mobility and wage loss generated by late‐industrial stratification systems. Although the liberal theory and its close cousins assume that loss and failure will be interpreted in individualistic terms, recent developments suggest instead that they are generating solidary groups that are increasingly locked into zero‐sum contest and successfully mobilized by politicians and other norm entrepreneurs. These developments imply a Marxisant future for late‐industrial inequality that bears scant resemblance to the highly individualized, unstructured, and non‐conflictual stratification system envisaged by the liberal theory. We outline a new post‐liberal theory of stratification that better captures the forces making for change and resistance in late‐industrial societies.

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“…Thus, in the case of the US, while some analysts (e.g. Davis and Mazumder, 2017) have claimed to show that with rising income inequality after 1980 relative income mobility has fallen -as Krueger (2012) would expect from the GGC -others, notably Chetty et al (2014), maintain that, contrary to Krueger's expectations, the net association between parents and children's incomes has remained remarkably stable over recent decades. And Hout (2018) finds no significant change in relative mobility as measured in terms of socioeconomic status over the period 1994-2016.…”

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Social Inequality and Social Mobility: Is there an Inverse Relation?

Bukodi¹,

Goldthorpe²

2018

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While accepting that an inverse relation of some kind exists between inequality and mobility, we begin by reviewing criticisms of recent attempts by economists to express this relation in terms of income inequality and mobility – the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’. This appears to be neither empirically secure nor theoretically well-grounded. Using a newly constructed European dataset, we then aim to show that if mobility is treated in terms of social class, rather than income, an inverse relation with social inequality can be suggested that is more complex but that has a stronger empirical and a more coherent theoretical basis. Our results indicate that European countries are best seen not as displaying entirely continuous variation in their relative rates of class mobility, but rather as falling into a number of comparatively high and low fluidity groups. We offer an interpretation of these results that starts out from the proposition that within societies with a capitalist market economy, a nuclear family system and a liberal democratic polity, some limit exists to the extent to which relative mobility rates can be brought towards equality. Variation in such rates can then be understood in terms of how close nations are to this limit, and whether they are moving towards or receding from it, but with different forms of inequality impacting on their fluidity trajectories in differing ways.

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The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility After 1980

Cited by 32 publications

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Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence

Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence

A post‐liberal theory of stratification

Social Inequality and Social Mobility: Is there an Inverse Relation?

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