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：我们关心什么？我们应该关心什么？

不平等威胁着代际收入流动，但不同类型的不平等以不同的方式威胁着流动性，提出了不同的政策挑战。这就是为什么经验研究人员在选择用于衡量代际流动性的统计数据时应该保持不可知论。我认为澳大利亚总体上具有大量的代际流动性，但全面的情况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，流动性不仅是收入，还包括地位和方向，尤其是向上流动的空间。