1. 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 ?

2. REVEALING SOCIAL MOBILITY AND INEQUALITY

3. Measuring Social Mobility http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/academic_papers_report.pdf

4. Income (Im-)Mobility

5. Measuring Inequality http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/  http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2009_Tables.xls

6. Richest 10% to poorest 10%

7. Numbers combined...

8. ...and graphed

9. What do the numbers show?

10. Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 5.6 Finland Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.20

11. 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 Finland Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 5.6 Income Immobility: 0.20 1268 Finland

12. Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 6.9 Germany Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.24

13. 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 Germany Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 6.9 Income Immobility: 0.24 1268 Germany

14. Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 11.6 Italy Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.33

15. 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 Italy Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 11.6 Income Immobility: 0.33 Italy 1268

16. Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 13.8 UK Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.37

17. 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 United Kingdom UK Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 13.8 Income Immobility: 0.37 1268

18. Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 15.9 USA Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.41

19. 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 United States USA Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 15.9 Income Immobility: 0.41 1268

20. Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 40.6 Brazil Picturing Inequality and Social (Im-)Mobility Income Immobility: 0.52

21. 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 Brazil Richest 10% to poorest 10%: 40.6 Income Immobility: 0.52 1268

22. The whole picture Social (Im-)Mobility and Inequality

23. The whole graph Social (Im-)Mobility and Inequality 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 1268 France Norway Canada Denmark Finland Germany Sweden Brazil United States United Kingdom Italy Australia

24. Population (million) 30 20 10 Social (Im-)Mobility and Inequality...and the population 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 20 4060 Income Inequality (richest 10% to poorest 10%) Income Immobility Data sources: United Nations HDR 2009; Jo Blanden / The Sutton Trust 2008 0.2 0.15 0 0.12 1268 United Kingdom France Norway Denmark Finland Germany Sweden Brazil United States Italy Australia Canada

26. Images courtesy of... Front slide: Sylvain Bourdos http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylvainbourdos/3306816005/sizes/l/ The rich man: Agarra la Jarra http://agarrala.blogspot.com/2008/06/qu-tan-rico-eres.html The poor man: Manuel Bronstein http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Manuel.Bronstein/pmint/ Andreas Roemer http://www.andresroemer.com/images/12345.jpg Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org Selfmade screenshots...if not stated otherwise on the slides. Slides by Benjamin Hennig