(gns indkomst in the graph means average income for that 10% group. Divide by 7.45 to get euro)
The difference between low income and mean income in the Nordics is fairly small, I’ve even known simple service workers making more than mediocre engineers if they work night shifts. So it’s much easier for a Finn from a “low class” background to make the mean wage because there’s a smaller gap, even if their absolute income hasn’t changed as much as a British or American working class person managing the same. But from my experience kids who grow up with parents working low class, unskilled jobs still mostly do the same sort of jobs when they grow up, but it’s just these jobs aren’t as low income as elsewhere.
Curious what these figures would be for national/religious minorities in the same member states.
Hm, wouldn’t it make more sense if this data visualization used fractional generations to map the data? I mean, the source data was surely averaged over many families and lineages, so you wouldn’t end up with integer data, right?
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[Source](https://www.oecd.org/social/broken-elevator-how-to-promote-social-mobility-9789264301085-en.htm)
When you are a OECD member but not even on the chart💀
Germany’s position is interesting.
Nordics 🔛🔝
To go from the average bottom 10% income in Denmark to the average top 1% requires you to double your income 6 times. https://cepos.dk/abcepos-artikler/0266-man-skal-tjene-750000-kr-for-at-vaere-i-top-10-pct-og-1-8-mio-kr-for-at-vaere-i-top-1-pct/?
(gns indkomst in the graph means average income for that 10% group. Divide by 7.45 to get euro)
The difference between low income and mean income in the Nordics is fairly small, I’ve even known simple service workers making more than mediocre engineers if they work night shifts. So it’s much easier for a Finn from a “low class” background to make the mean wage because there’s a smaller gap, even if their absolute income hasn’t changed as much as a British or American working class person managing the same. But from my experience kids who grow up with parents working low class, unskilled jobs still mostly do the same sort of jobs when they grow up, but it’s just these jobs aren’t as low income as elsewhere.
Curious what these figures would be for national/religious minorities in the same member states.
Hm, wouldn’t it make more sense if this data visualization used fractional generations to map the data? I mean, the source data was surely averaged over many families and lineages, so you wouldn’t end up with integer data, right?