Sentence examples for more downward mobility from inspiring English sources

But improving rates of upward relative mobility from the bottom comes with a sting in the tail: it requires more downward mobility from the top.

"The only way you can have more upward mobility in a relative perspective," Goldthorpe bluntly informed an interviewer last year, "is if you have more downward mobility at the same time".

This result could be driven by the fact that upward mobility is more common than downward mobility, such that individuals whose parents had high levels of education are also likely to remain at the higher end of the distribution, while those with very low-level parental background can by definition only move up.

"There are good grounds for believing, consistent with the psychological theory of loss aversion, that parents and their children are yet more concerned to avoid downward mobility than they are to achieve upward mobility," he will claim.

There are grounds for believing, consistent with the psychological theory of loss aversion, that parents and their children are yet more concerned to avoid downward mobility than they are to achieve upward mobility.

Yet if we want the charge of P.C. to fade, it would be good for Democrats to speak more about the economic aspirations of all Americans, and to propose more robust solutions for the downward mobility that has been affecting all but the elite -- and to remind struggling voters that a billionaire bully is not likely to be their champion.

In the US, upward mobility is more myth than reality, whereas downward mobility and vulnerability is a widely shared experience.

The Pew Charitable Trusts found in a 2011 study that those with just a high school degree or less are 13 percent more likely to experience significant downward mobility – seeing their income fall substantially below what their parents made – than those with college degrees.

In the U.S., upward mobility is more myth than reality, whereas downward mobility and vulnerability is a widely shared experience.

Persisting disadvantage is more common among South Asian and Caribbean migrants, and downward mobility is associated with more ill health among Caribbeans.

Downward mobility was a more general phenomenon than upward mobility in Qing society; those at the bottom of the social scale did not marry and have children, while the wealthy practiced polygyny and tended to have large families.