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：ErikIgelström：生活在不平等低（富人与穷人之间的差距很小的国家）的MC_UU_00022/2PEOPLE往往平均更健康。不平等不平等的国家（如芬兰和丹麦）也倾向于在几代人中具有很多社会流动性。换句话说，人们的成功机会并不取决于父母的情况。但情况并非总是如此。例如，加拿大的社会流动性很高，但不平等也很高。我们对这两个因素如何共同影响健康并不了解：加拿大高社会流动性是否弥补了高不平等的负面影响？为了帮助理解这一点，我将比较加拿大的部分地区，并查看当社会流动性很多时，不平等是否显得较小。为此，我首先需要计算不同大都市地区的社会流动性数量。为了使这样的研究更加容易，我将向其他研究人员提供社会流动性数据。