So how did we end up in a position where social mobility is poor and worsening?
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Councillor Mike Whiting, cabinet education spokesman, said the authority was looking for "social mobility".
Consumerism has turned into more of a question of personal identity rather than social mobility.
Dr Ray argued that manipulating university admissions was not guaranteed to improve social mobility.
In some ways the link between wider income gaps and lower social mobility is unsurprising.
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Their results show that even over 200 years social mobility has been rather limited.
According to this measure, social mobility in America now is lower than in most of Europe.
In general, Ms Perlman finds far more social mobility than the reams of favela studies would suggest.
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Whatever the case, social mobility is big business, it is global and it is not going away.
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When it comes to social mobility between generations, the United States ranks near the bottom of developed nations.
The middle of the last century was the golden age of social mobility.
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We need investment in this area if the government is going to deliver on its promises on social mobility.
This is vital for social mobility inside countries -- it is essential for equality and justice across the world.
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Social mobility took off after the second world war for two main reasons.
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While it revealed this group of disgruntled young men, the bigger picture showed a more optimistic view of social mobility.
On the one hand, education (meant here in the broadest possible sense) provided him with unimagined opportunities for learning and upward social mobility.
It really looks like a case could be made that social mobility is the leading factor in what makes nations happy.
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Krugman and Krueger cite that there is a negative relationship between social mobility and inequality based on intergenerational elasticity of income.
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He said the party wanted to improve social mobility in the "large parts of the country where grammar schools have gone".
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But the Liberal Democrats said the report highlighted falling social mobility and that a quarter of the population are being left behind.
We want to help more people start new schools, acting as an engine for social mobility in every region of the country.
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But social mobility has increased too, and a disproportionately large number of the winners came from the bottom of the social heap.
University admissions have long been central to the debate about social mobility.
And Latin America shows that investing more in education at the bottom can improve social mobility even in the most stratified places.
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One third of England's undergraduate population studies part-time, and the importance of part-time study for the economy and social mobility is widely recognised.
Next week David Davis will launch a taskforce to examine the recent fall in social mobility - and find ways to reverse it.
"There is no silver bullet on social mobility, but education and higher skills are as close as you get to one, " he said.
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