Economic mobility has not increased to mitigate higher inequality Despite the fact that rising inequality has compounded the stakes associated with one’s position in the income distribution, mobility up and down the economic ladder from one generation to the next in the United States has been stagnant.
You will see evidence of this in the European Central Bank’s Euro Exhibition, which is also on show here, having just come to the end of a successful showing at the Museum für Kommunikation’s partner museum in Berlin. As you walk through the Euro Exhibition, you will without doubt recognise the images of bridges, which feature on the back of our euro banknotes.