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Re:Why is the American dream dead in the south? by rcthompson on Sunday January 26, 2014 @04:31PM (#7127032)
Page 82 of the study [1] has two maps: one for absolute upward mobility and one for relative upward mobility. They look mostly the same. I guess you're talking more about comparing the U.S. to Denmark, but as the maps show (and the linked article mentions), taking the U.S. as a whole is absurd anyway.

[1] This one: http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/mobility_geo.pdf

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Re:Why is the American dream dead in the south? by twoodfin on Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:51PM (#7127980)
I was referring to this survey on international intergenerational mobility, not the U.S. specific one:

http://cee.lse.ac.uk/ceedps/ceedp111.pdf

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Re:Why is the American dream dead in the south? by rcthompson on Monday January 27, 2014 @12:00AM (#7128902)
Ah, I see. I didn't look closely at that one. I was more interested in the differences-within-USA aspect.
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