They have the world's highest rates of social mobility: in a comparison of social mobility in eight advanced countries by Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin, of the London School of Economics, they occupied the first four places.
Respondents were asked about what they professionally perceived as the implications of intra-EU mobility, in four main domains: the labour market; housing and neighbourhood; registration, social security and participation; language and education.
Despite only having mobility in one leg and having used a wheelchair for 15 years, in October he walked 60km (37 miles) around London over nine days using a bespoke walking frame to raise more than £60,000 to mark the MS Society's 60th anniversary.
In a pioneering paper, Fabian Pfeffer and Martin Hallsten examine the effect of wealth on upward mobility in three countries (Germany, the United States and Sweden).
Inter-generational mobility was tested in three [ 37, 39, 40], intra-generational mobility in five [ 33- 39, 39, 42] and one assessed both types [ 39].
Therefore, they proposed a new rating system that dissociated each of the three following dimensions of hip function: pain, ability to walk, and mobility, in seven ordered categories (Table 1).
While salary was positively associated with decreasing intention to leave work of nurses in Thailand [ 32], WHO, in a study of reasons for staff mobility in six African countries, found that only 24% of respondents quoted better remuneration as a reason for leaving [ 18].
