How social mobility and income inequality affect health in Canada

社会流动性和收入不平等如何影响加拿大的健康

• 批准号: NE/X007650/1
• 负责人: Peter Craig
• 金额: $ 1.21万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FX007650%2F1
• 关键词: How; social; mobility; income; inequality

MRC : Erik Igelström : MC_UU_00022/2People who live in countries with low inequality (where the gap between the rich and the poor is small) tend to be healthier on average. Countries with low inequality (like Finland and Denmark) also tend to have a lot of social mobility across generations. In other words, people's chances of success don't depend on how well off their parents were. But this isn't always the case. For example, Canada has high social mobility, but also high inequality. We don't know much about how these two factors work together to affect health: Does Canada's high social mobility compensate for the negative impact of high inequality? To help understand this, I will compare parts of Canada, and look at whether inequality seems to matter less when there is a lot of social mobility. To do this, I will first need to calculate the amount of social mobility in different metropolitan areas. To make studies like this easier in the future, I will make the social mobility data available to other researchers.

MRC：Erik Igelström：MC_UU_00022/2平均而言，生活在不平等程度较低（贫富之间的差距较小）的国家的人们往往更健康。不平等程度较低的国家（如芬兰和丹麦）也往往有很大的代际社会流动性。换句话说，人们成功的机会并不取决于他们的父母有多富裕。但情况并非总是如此。例如，加拿大的社会流动性很高，但不平等程度也很高。我们不太了解这两个因素如何共同影响健康：加拿大的高社会流动性是否弥补了高度不平等的负面影响？为了帮助理解这一点，我将比较加拿大的部分地区，看看当社会流动性很大时，不平等是否显得不那么重要。为此，我首先需要计算不同大都市地区的社会流动量。为了使将来的研究更容易，我将把社会流动性数据提供给其他研究人员。