The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940
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The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940.
We estimated rates of "absolute income mobility"-the fraction of children who earn more than their parents-by combining data from U.S. Census and Current Population Survey cross sections with panel data from de-identified tax records. We found that rates of absolute mobility have fallen from approximately 90% for children born in 1940 to 50% for children born in the 1980s. Increasing Gross Dome...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal4617