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Five reasons inequality is among the most pressing issues of our times

22 June 2019

What about in the UK? Stephen Machin, Jo Blanden and friends pointed out that those born in the 1950s were more socially mobile than those born in the 1970s, who entered the labour market at the UK's peak of inequality. It seems obvious when you write it down, but new research has shown that the more there is at stake-like in highly unequal societies-then the more parents try to help their children get on in life, and it is so much easier for rich parents to provide that help than it is for those with few resources.

Social Mobility And Its Enemies Lee Elliot Major & Stephen Machin, Pelican, October 2018.

'Falling Absolute Intergenerational Mobility' presented at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2019.

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