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Title: The Glass Floor: Education, Downward Mobility, and Opportunity Hoarding
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Reeves, Richard V. Howard, Kimberly |
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The Glass Floor: Education, Downward Mobility, and Opportunity Hoarding Working Paper, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, November 2013 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Brookings Institution Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Cognitive Ability; Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Family Income; Mobility, Economic; Mobility, Social; Noncognitive Skills; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Self-Esteem From an intergenerational perspective, the U.S. income distribution is sticky at both ends. Affluence and poverty are both partially inherited. Policy and research has focused on upward mobility, especially from the bottom. But relative intergenerational upward mobility is only possible with equivalent rates of downward mobility, where much less attention has been directed. Those born into more affluent families may be protected from falling by a “glass floor,” even if they are only modestly skilled. |
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Reeves, Richard V. and Kimberly Howard. "The Glass Floor: Education, Downward Mobility, and Opportunity Hoarding." Working Paper, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, November 2013. |