Getting Ahead: Socio-economic Mobility, Perceptions of Opportunity for Socio-economic Mobility, and Attitudes Towards Public Assistance in the United States

In this research I first examine how Americans’ perceptions of what it takes to get ahead are influenced by their income and then compare those perceptions to measured levels of intergenerational socio-economic mobility. By better understanding these relationships I hope to gain insight into the pat...

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Main Author: Klein, Alissa
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5886
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7082&context=etd