Marriage here would seem to have been both cause and effect of upward social mobility.
Upward mobility has been a real possibility for a large number of people.
He regarded education as the best means of upward social mobility.
The show was seen as an encouragement for upward mobility.
She came from a lower middle class family but her upward mobility has been especially spectacular.
There's no upward mobility without a coup of some kind.
It is particularly important for upward mobility of the working class and minorities.
Like many immigrants, they see education as the path to upward mobility.
In the process, many Indians experienced upward social mobility for the first time.
More often than not, however, the unspoken reason is upward mobility.