The 7th International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD 2019)

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Are the American Dream and Chinese Dream Still Achievable? A study on Regional Income Mobility

Regional Income Mobility, American Dream, Chinese Dream

We perform an analysis to infer the regional income mobility of a selection of developed and developing economies over a twenty-year period (1997-2017). We discuss whether the famous ‘American Dream’ or ‘Chinese Dream’ is still achievable under the assumption that the income mobility within an economy should accommodate a certain probability of income change. We found that both China and the USA have relative, significant economic growth and high mobility, whereas the rest of the world has become inconsistent in income mobility.