Social scientists have explored for decades the consequences of an attrition of intergenerational mobility.
They demonstrate the deleterious effects of such a phenomenon for society.
The feeling of downgrading, or worse, the downgrading of one's children, feeds extreme votes and ultimately violence.
Before thinking about the tools that could repair the social ladder, it is therefore crucial to measure this phenomenon.
The work delivered this Wednesday by INSEE is, as such, very instructive.
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Statisticians have thus measured intergenerational mobility in terms of income, a subject hitherto poorly documented in France.
Their result is not surprising.
The higher the parents are classified in the income scale, the better will also be, on average, their children compared to the young adults of their generation.
To achieve these results, the statistical institute compared the relative position of parents in the income scale in 2010 with that of their child…
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