Income Mobility In The Uk
Mobility of income and earnings mean that most uk studies have produced wide ranging estimates and fairly inconclusive results until now.
Income mobility in the uk. The uk has a long way to go to become a fairer society. This reduction in inequality reflecting income mobility is of about the same magnitude as the equalising impact of direct taxation on household s taxable income but a lot smaller than the increase in inequality in britain between 1979 and 1990 91 about a third according to the gini coefficient. We estimate that we could realistically improve the uk s levels of relative income mobility the chances of climbing the income ladder. While it is tempting to immediately form the estimates into a league table we must pay attention to the.
18 in high income economies increasing the level of social mobility could therefore act as an important lever to relaunch economic growth in a context of stagnating productivity growth and median income growth as. In this paper using a recent data set that spans over 26 years i investigate the extent of intergenerational income mobility for adults born between 1973 1991.