KUALA LUMPUR: Education plays a big role in enabling Malaysian children to be better off than their parents economically, creating a highly mobile society. The report answers with a resounding "yes" the question whether Malaysian children are better off than their parents, Khazanah Research Institute managing director Datuk Charon Mokhzani said at the release of the report. KRI director of research Dr Muhammed Abdul Khalid, who authored the study, said that Malaysian children already had access to schooling which gave them education mobility. As a result, he pointed out, 85 per cent of Malaysian children had a higher or the same skill level compared to their parents. The intergenerational socio-economic mobility study compares the education, occupational skill, and income status of 4,999 parent-child pairs at a comparable working age.

Source: New Strait Times October 28, 2016 06:06 UTC