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Miles Corak

@milescorak.com

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Professor of economics The Graduate Center, City University of New York Senior Scholar The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality #socialmobility #childrights #inequality #jobs #poverty #socialpolicy #cdnecon #EconSky milescorak.com

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 11/02/2025

I often wonder what type of #inequality #PopeFrancis had in mind when he posted this on Twitter in 2014. #EconSky

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 29/01/2025

The premier of the Canadian province of Ontario #DougFord called a snap election today, and I received a cheque from him for $200. A cheap but expensive political gimmick claiming to “help manage the costs of the federal carbon tax” But federal carbon pricing comes with targeted rebates! #OnPoli

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 20/01/2025

Among the many insights in this conversation, these two paragraphs from David Brooks resonate most deeply with my research.

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 09/12/2024

And when this goes together with economic growth that has been polarizing--leaving as many #children to fall not just relative to their peers but also in absolute terms compared to their parents--it surely is a recipe for growing insecurity and resentment of those at the top.

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 09/12/2024

Is this a problem? Not if the rungs on the ladder are close together, but over the last generation that has not been the case, with higher and higher #inequality heightening the consequences of falling down or climbing the ladder.

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 09/12/2024

#socialmobility varies across the income distribution, more stickiness at the top and bottom, high fluidity across generations in the middle Children of middle income families are as likely to fall as they are to rise on the income ladder, meaning family background does not give them any advantage.

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