How much of an individual's success depends on their own hard work and how much on what their parents do for a living? A country where children from poor families are likely to be poor as adults and elite positions in society are closed to most people, is said to have low social mobility - the opportunity to move up the social ladder is not equal. Economists study the causes and consequences of low social mobility.

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26 July 2023

https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/insights/social-mobility/

This CEP Insights is published under the centre's Education programme, Community Wellbeing programme, Labour programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Inequality and social mobility