... greater scope and opportunity to those with extraordinary entrepreneurial ability, luck, or managerial skill. Poverty income Upward mobility Inequality Income inequality has grown in the US and other developed economies since the early 1970s, due to the combined effects of two different phenomena...

...It is reasonable to surmise that the dramatic improvement in upward mobility for lower-income families between 1986 and 1996 was a temporary phenomenon – a con-sequence of less competition for school places and, especially, university places. This period is now behind us. The significance...

... units. This would have three different effects for increasing intergenerational mobility among low-income households. Intergenerational mobility Poverty Upward mobility Family Income The previous essay showed that there has been no decline in the relative prospects of intergenerational mobility...

... mobility Income Intergenerational upward mobility in the past half century in Hong Kong, measured by correlating parents’ schooling attainment to that of their children’s for those born between 1956 and 1991, has not changed, once we take into account the waves of emigration. As discussed in Part 3...

...) units for sale in stages to sitting tenants in an attempt to facilitate upward mobility of the have-nots. Secondly, some future public housing estates should contain a clause which offers sitting tenants the option of purchasing the unit at a predetermined price after a certain period. Reference...