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social mobility
(redirected from Income mobility)

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social mobility,
the process of moving upward or downward in the social hierarchy.


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Because your gain in position and happiness must be someone else's loss, Layard lumps upward income mobility together with classic "negative externalities" such as toxic sludge dumped in a stream or the roar of jets taking off from a nearby airport.
Happiness is ... higher taxes: is one man's productivity another ... by Wilkinson, Will / Reason
``In the past, that sector was the route to upward income mobility for marginally educated workers.
SIDE-JOB SIDESHOW MORE WORKERS WRESTLE WITH DEMANDS OF MOONLIGHTING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Armey cites a study that shows that there is huge income mobility in America.
The Freedom Revolution by Krugman, Paul / Washington Monthly
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