From a high in the 1940s, absolute mobility has been falling.

1940年，绝对社会流动性达到峰值，但从那之后一直在下降。

Since the second world war in America, absolute mobility has declined.

自第二次世界大战以来，美国的绝对流动性有所下降。

This unequal growth in incomes has meant less absolute mobility for Americans.

收入的这种不平等增长意味着美国人的绝对流动性下降。

Absolute mobility is when you move up or down in absolute terms – are you better or worse than before?

绝对流动性是指你在绝对意义上上升或下降——你比以前更好还是更差？

Today, we talked about intergenerational and intragenerational mobility and the difference between absolute and relative mobility.

今天我们讲了代际流动和代内流动，以及绝对流动和相对流动的区别。

A recent analysis of tax data by a group of economists and sociologists found that absolute mobility has declined over the last half century.

一组经济学家和社会学家最近对税收数据的分析发现，绝对流动性在过去半个世纪中有所下降。

Over the last half century, women as a whole have experienced absolute mobility – 85% of women earn higher wages than their mothers did.

在过去的半个世纪里，女性作为一个整体经历了绝对的流动性——85% 的女性赚取的工资高于她们的母亲。

The good news is that if we zoom out and look at absolute mobility across the years, the long term trend in social mobility is upwards.

好消息是，如果我们放大观察多年来的绝对流动性，社会流动性的长期趋势是向上的。

We talked about the long run upward social mobility trends in the United States as well as the recent declines in absolute social mobility.

我们谈到了美国长期向上的社会流动性趋势以及近期绝对社会流动性的下降。

In the wake of this decline, most of the jobs available for less-educated workers tend to be low-paying service industry jobs, contributing to lower absolute mobility than we’ve seen in the past.

在这种下降之后， 受教育程度较低的工人可以获得的大部分工作往往是低薪服务行业工作，导致绝对流动性低于我们过去所见。