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Structural Mobility

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Structural mobility is movement caused by change in the economy itself rather than by anything individuals did, moving many people at once in the same direction.

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When an industry contracts, people lose position together without any change in their conduct.

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Students often read mobility stories as individual achievement, forgetting structural mobility runs downward as readily as upward.

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