intragenerational mobility

British

/ ˌɪntrəˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃənəl /

noun

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

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“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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