OECDE, A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries

A Family Affair: Intergenerational
Social Mobility across OECD Countries
Policy reform can remove obstacles to intergenerational social mobility and thereby
promote equality of opportunities across individuals. Such reform will also enhance
economic growth by allocating human resources to their best use. This chapter
assesses cross-country patterns in intergenerational social mobility and examines
the role that public policies play in affecting mobility. Intergenerational earning,
wage and educational mobility vary widely across OECD countries. Mobility in
earnings, wages and education across generations is relatively low in France,
southern European countries, the United Kingdom and the United States.
By contrast, such mobility tends to be higher in Australia, Canada and the
Nordic countries.

IN: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/42/44566315.pdf