Social Mobility does not matter where it is high, because the size of the gap from top to bottom is so low, Discuss Keynote address by Danny Dorling University of Sheffield Annual Conference of the Social Research Association “Moving on up – Social Mobility and Social Research” Tuesday 15th December 2009, Brunei Gallery, SOA, University of London ?
REVEALING SOCIAL MOBILITY AND INEQUALITY
Measuring Social Mobility
Income (Im-)Mobility
Measuring Inequality
Richest 10% to poorest 10%
Numbers combined...
...and graphed
What do the numbers show?
Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 5.6 Finland Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.20
Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust Finland Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 5.6 Income Immobility: Finland
Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 6.9 Germany Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.24
Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust Germany Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 6.9 Income Immobility: Germany
Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 11.6 Italy Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.33
Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust Italy Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 11.6 Income Immobility: 0.33 Italy 1268
Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 13.8 UK Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.37
Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust United Kingdom UK Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 13.8 Income Immobility:
Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 15.9 USA Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.41
Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust United States USA Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 15.9 Income Immobility:
Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 40.6 Brazil Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.52
Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust Brazil Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 40.6 Income Immobility:
The whole picture Social (Im-)Mobility and Inequality
The whole graph Social (Im-)Mobility and Inequality Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust France Norway Canada Denmark Finland Germany Sweden Brazil United States United Kingdom Italy Australia
Population (million) Social (Im-)Mobility and Inequality...and the population Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust United Kingdom France Norway Denmark Finland Germany Sweden Brazil United States Italy Australia Canada
Images courtesy of... Front slide: Sylvain Bourdos The rich man: Agarra la Jarra The poor man: Manuel Bronstein Andreas Roemer Wikimedia Commons Selfmade screenshots...if not stated otherwise on the slides. Slides by Benjamin Hennig