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And Romney’s drastic budget cutbacks, targeted at the poor and middle class, would further impede social mobility.
But, as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel noted last month, this has been positive for many cities, allowing them to become testing grounds for the future of mobility, work, housing, energy, education, and health.
And for African governments in particular, that fact creates an opportunity to harness the positive power of human mobility.
Globalization and technological innovation are not painless processes, so there will always be a need for retraining initiatives, lifelong education, mobility and income-support programs, and regional transfers.
As the Brexit vote shows, Europe’s political class greatly underestimated the strains caused by free mobility across borders – a shibboleth of the failed neoliberal project of maximizing market-based resource allocation.
Indeed, the fatal flaw of free mobility in the EU is that it always presupposed a state to manage the movement.
Restoring some balance to the income distribution and encouraging social mobility, while strengthening incentives for innovation and growth, will be among the most important – and formidable – challenges of the twenty-first century.
These include legal impediments to labor mobility, reform of a complex tax system beset by excessive rates and porous loopholes, and substandard road infrastructure.
In football, as in other occupations, restrictions on labor mobility came entirely from the demand side.
Free mobility of labor in other areas would probably produce the same effect.
These policies could then be entirely subjugated to the demands of the gold standard and free capital mobility.
Another problem in top-ranked Germany and Austria is the lack of educational opportunities for certain groups, which contributes to a lack of opportunity and mobility in the labor market.
Both resources and mobility are costly.
Americans have deep-seated, optimistic views about social mobility, opinions that are rooted in US history and bolstered by narratives of rags-to-riches immigrants.
But today, Americans’ beliefs about social mobility are based more on myth than on fact.
In other words, Americans overestimate upward social mobility and underestimate the likelihood of remaining stuck in poverty for generations.
European respondents are more pessimistic about mobility: unlike Americans, they overestimate the odds of remaining in poverty.
Views about social mobility are not uniform across the political spectrum or across geographic regions.
An even more striking pattern is that Americans are overly optimistic about social mobility in parts of the country where actual mobility is low – including the southeastern states of Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
In these states, respondents believe that mobility is more than two times greater than it is.
By contrast, respondents underestimate social mobility in northern states – including Vermont, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington – where it is higher.
When shown pessimistic information about mobility, for example, liberals became even more supportive of redistributive policies, such as public education and universal health care.
While they acknowledged that low social mobility is economically limiting, they remained as averse to government intervention and redistribution as they were before we shared the data with them.
In short, when conservatives learn that social mobility is lower than they thought, they believe government is the problem, not the solution.
But what is clear is that people’s views about social mobility have as much to do with ideology and geography as with their circumstances.
There are other impediments to global mobility, too, not always explicitly protectionist, but all having the effect of limiting access to universities around the world.
Today's swirling patterns of mobility and knowledge transmission constitute a new kind of free trade: free trade in minds.
California once was a source of widely shared rising standards of living and tremendous upward economic mobility.
These include demographics, fiscal conditions, social policies that affect income distribution, access to public services, the extent of upward mobility, the backlog of past extra-legal immigration, the ethnic composition of the country, and the values that define national identity.
In particular, they tried to present a case for weakening crucial elements of the European integration process, especially with regard to labor mobility.
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