How social mobility and income inequality affect health in Canada

MRC: Erik Igelström: mc_uu_00022 /2生活在不平等程度较低的国家（贫富差距较小）的人平均而言往往更健康。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父母的富裕程度。但情况并非总是如此。例如，加拿大有很高的社会流动性，但也有很高的不平等。我们不太清楚这两个因素是如何共同影响健康的：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，看看在社会流动性很大的情况下，不平等是否显得不那么重要。要做到这一点，我首先需要计算不同大都市地区的社会流动性。为了使以后的研究更容易，我将把社会流动性的数据提供给其他研究人员。

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.