He is working on a study on upward mobility in global cities for the London-based Legatum Institute.
Traditionally, the middle class has supported meritocracy and upward mobility, more than the elite has done.
They want to see continuing and stable economic growth and opportunities for upward mobility.
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But today, average people are more concerned with their individual rights and opportunities for upward mobility.
In fact, they can have the opposite effect and insulate lower classes from upward mobility.
Through them, Ms Boo explores poverty, corruption and the hope of upward mobility that globalisation brings.
Many of the goods displayed, like children's desks and patio furniture, represent a dream of upward mobility.
Eight states in the union perform consistently better than the national average in terms of upward mobility.
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The longer a child was breastfed, the greater were their chances of upward mobility, the results showed.
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My firm offers more upward mobility and the benefit of being able to work with senior management daily.
For many, upward mobility has only been possible when financed and heavily leveraged with substantial debt.
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This overall lack of upward mobility, argues Mr Philippon, contributes largely to ordinary French cadres' dissatisfaction with corporate life.
What this is doing is eliminating the middle steps of the ladder of upward mobility for non-professional working families.
If given a chance, free markets will always produce wealth and upward mobility.
He all but ignores the multiple examples of upward mobility and successful integration.
But if history is any indicator, government transactions and services don't seem to be the key drivers of upward mobility.
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
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For many years, we had a welfare system that too often discouraged people from taking responsibility for their own upward mobility.
It all adds up to a worldview that puts little stock in traditional notions of upward mobility economic, cultural, or both.
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But would-be inheritors of the Reaganite mantle should at least sympathize with their goal to restore broad-based upward mobility and close-to-full employment.
Mr Graham took the barbed-wire fundamentalism of his youth and reshaped it for the post-war era of two-car garages and upward mobility.
Moving on, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Utah are also strong performers in two out of the three measures of upward mobility.
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Ms Kaur's research in five Indian states finds that richer middle-class families are no longer using sons as vehicles for upward mobility.
Maids are the bottom of the upward mobility food chain in Brazil.
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As reported in a previous survey, being cloud savvy may even be the ticket to upward mobility through the corporate ranks these days.
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Some Americans believe that only now, with an African-American about to become president, has the country has truly embraced the ideal of ethnic diversity and upward mobility.
On the one hand, they are well-positioned to satisfy common social goals including helping lower-income populations achieve upward mobility through greater access to financial services.
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His working-class Jewish family struggled to get by in impoverished circumstances and placed their hopes in young Walter, whose intelligence promised a chance at upward mobility.
These are young men, aged between 16 and 24, who appear to be particularly frustrated and unhopeful about their chances of good jobs or any upward mobility.
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