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The growing level of income inequality over the past decades has intensified the interest in social mobility. The prospect of social advancement appeases the “relative” losers. Therefore, social mobility may be considered the glue that holds unequal societies together, both intra- and intergenerationally.
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Clark, G. (2014). The son also rises: Surnames and the history of social mobility. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Berthold, N. (2019). Norbert Berthold Recommends “The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility” by Gregory Clark. In: Frey, B., Schaltegger, C. (eds) 21st Century Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17740-9_6
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