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Intergenerational Mobility

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Intergenerational mobility is the difference in social position between a person and their parents, and it is the standard measure of how open a society is.

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Comparing a child's eventual position with the household they were raised in gives the measure.

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A society can show high individual mobility and unchanged overall inequality.