Inequality threatens intergenerational income mobility, but different types of inequality threaten mobility in different ways, raising distinct policy challenges. This is why empirical researchers should be agnostic in the choice of statistics they use to measure intergenerational mobility. I argue that Australia is on the whole characterised by a good deal of intergenerational mobility, but that a full picture requires judicious international comparisons across different dimensions of mobility citizens care about, mobility not just of incomes, but also of position and direction, particularly the scope for upward mobility.

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代际流动性：我们关心什么？我们应该关心什么？

不平等威胁着代际间的收入流动，但是不同类型的不平等以不同的方式威胁着流动，从而带来了独特的政策挑战。这就是为什么经验研究人员在选择用于测量代际流动性的统计数据时应该保持不可知论的原因。我认为，澳大利亚总体上具有很多代际流动性，但要全面了解，需要对公民关心的流动性的不同维度进行明智的国际比较，流动性不仅涉及收入，还涉及地位和方向，特别是人口流动性。向上流动的范围。