intragenerational mobility

/ ˌɪntrəˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃənəl /

noun

1. sociol movement within or between social classes and occupations, the change occurring within an individual's lifetime Compare intergenerational mobility

Example Sentences

“Though increasing through much of the 20th century, we show that intragenerational mobility has been declining since the early 1980s across a variety of rank-based measures,” the scholars write.

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