On average, 1,100 euros of income separates a quarter of privileged people from a quarter of the poorest, all other things being equal. 517595998/Dilok – stock.adobe.com
Teams from the France Strategy think-tank are trying to measure the predictive power of gender and the family and territorial environment on the level of income from the activity of young professionals.
By working on the question of equal opportunities, a pillar of the French Republican promise, the teams of France Strategy, a think-tank dependent on Matignon, have tackled a field where prejudices thrive more than studies. In their note entitled “Inequalities of opportunity: what matters most”, the researchers attempt to measure the predictive power of gender and the family and territorial environment, i.e. “characteristics assigned to you by the spell“, according to Gilles de Margerie, commissioner general of the institution, on the level of income from activity (salary and non-salaried income) of young professionals.
From a sample of around 100,000 individuals aged 31 to 46 in 2018, they established a very clear hierarchy of the weight of these factors. Unsurprisingly, it is the social environment that proves to be the most decisive. On average, 1,100 euros of income separates a quarter of privileged people from a quarter of the poorest, all things being equal…
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