The study gives a startlingly optimistic picture of economic mobility.

He is therefore prevented from gaining economic mobility out of the working class.

There are two different ways to measure economic mobility: absolute and relative.

Studies have shown that education and family background has a great effect on economic mobility across generations.

According to studies, there is a great upward jump in economic mobility from the first to the second immigrant generation because of education.

Still common today, adult adoption is a dynamic tool for social and economic mobility.

There were few other sources of economic mobility or excitement in rural areas.

Effective parenting is critically important to giving children a good start on the road to social and economic mobility.

It has enjoyed a history of real economic mobility.

One came from a struggling middle-class family aspiring to economic mobility.