people from low-income families have significantly higher risk of having a low standard of living to adulthood if they grow up in some areas, reveals a study published Thursday 11 June 2020, which stresses the importance of policies dedicated to people who are less mobile and non-graduates of these territories. Rather than an opposition – commonly referred to – between rural and urban territories, or between city centers and “France” device, this study, conducted by France’s Strategy highlights the “inequalities of fate” between regions.
” Having grown up in a rural or peri-urban areas does not reduce the prospects for standard of living of children of humble origin “, the authors conclude, Clement Dherbécourt and Gustave Kenedi. On the other hand, ” the territories with a weak outlook for standard of living are concentrated in the North and to the south of the country : ancient regions Languedoc-Roussillon and Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Corsica, the departments of Aisne, Ardennes, of the Var and the Vaucluse “, detail they.
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to answer the question ” to what extent is the level of a person’s life depends on it of the place where she grew up ? “the two economists have studied statistical data on 80,000 people, the children of workers or employees, born between 1970 and 1988. They have met the current standard of living of these people with the place where they spent their teenage years – they still live there or not.
Differences in wealth between regions
Result : “prospects of income in adulthood increase with the level of wealth of the territory of origin “. As a result, people of humble origin who grew up in Île-de-France have a median standard of living to the age of 1 730 euros, compared with 1 474 euros for those who grew up in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. This can be explained by the differences in wealth between regions and also by the fact that, everywhere, the low-income households are significantly less mobile than the wealthy families. However, “what really sets the regions with low prospects of level of life of others, it is the very low standard of living of non-college graduates who have not emigrated” in other regions, observe the authors.
To try to eliminate these disparities, the public authorities should therefore think of “mobility incentives” to assist some households to ” reach regions with better employment prospects “, they suggest. However, this should not be, according to them, the only track action, as a change region may have a ” significant cost on the well-being of individuals “. For economists, it should therefore also be considered in these territories of the most disadvantaged of the ” incentives socio-fiscal relocation of workstations quality “, but also to develop jobs in the public sector.
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