{"id":320,"date":"2011-12-21T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-12-21T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T01:50:00","slug":"the-downward-path-of-upward-mobility-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"The downward path of upward mobility – The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

The downward path of upward mobility – The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is only a surprise to those on the right, whose favorite policies all favor driving down wages in one way or another because they think it “works.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, over the past decade, growing evidence shows pretty conclusively that social mobility has stalled in this country. Last week, Time magazine\u2019s cover asked, \u201cCan You Still Move Up in America?\u201d The answer, citing a series of academic studies was, no; not as much as you could in the past and \u2014 most devastatingly \u2014 not as much as you can in Europe.<\/p>\n

The most comprehensive comparative study, done last year by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, found that \u201cupward mobility from the bottom\u201d \u2014 Daniels\u2019s definition \u2014 was significantly lower in the United States than in most major European countries, including Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark. Another study, by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany in 2006, uses other metrics and concludes that \u201cthe U.S. appears to be exceptional in having less rather than more upward mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 2010 Economic Mobility Project study found that in almost every respect, the United States has a more rigid socioeconomic class structure than Canada. More than a quarter of U.S. sons of top-earning fathers remain in the top tenth of earners as adults, compared to 18 percent of similarly situated Canadian sons. U.S. sons of fathers in the bottom tenth of earners are more likely to remain in the bottom tenth of earners as adults than are Canadian sons (22 percent vs. 16 percent). And U.S. sons of fathers in the bottom third of earnings distribution are less likely to make it into the top half as adults than are sons of low-earning Canadian fathers.<\/p>\n

Surveying all the evidence, Scott Winship, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, concludes in this week\u2019s National Review: \u201cWhat is clear is that in at least one regard American mobility is exceptional. .\u2009.\u2009. [W]here we stand out is our limited upward mobility from the bottom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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