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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales Open
Home ownership is the largest component of wealth for most households and its intergenerational transmission underpins the production and reproduction of economic inequalities across generations. Yet, little is currently known about ethnic…
Selective schooling and social mobility in England Open
We assess whether changing from an academically selective to a comprehensive schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in E…
View article: How much does degree choice matter?
How much does degree choice matter? Open
We use a large and novel administrative dataset to investigate returns to different university ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the United Kingdom. Conditioning on a rich set of background characteristics, we find substantia…
Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: A sub‐national analysis of differences and trends over time Open
Recent studies of social mobility have documented that not only who your parents are, but also where you grow up, substantially influences subsequent life chances. We bring these two concepts together to study social mobility in England an…
View article: How much does degree choice matter?
How much does degree choice matter? Open
Using a large and novel administrative dataset, this paper investigates variation in returnsto different higher education 'degrees' (subject-institution combinations) in the United King-dom. Conditioning on a rich set background characteri…
Selective Schooling Has Not Promoted Social Mobility in England Open
In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schoo…
The earnings returns to postgraduate degrees in the UK Open
Postgraduate education has expanded rapidly in the last couple of decades, with more than 350,000 students now starting a postgraduate course in the UK each year, compared with only around half this number 20 years ago. As increasing numbe…
Spatial and Social Mobility in England and Wales: Moving Out to Move on? Open
Social mobility—the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family origins—has taken an increasingly prominent role in public and policy discourse. Recent studies have documented that not …
The role of small businesses in employing the unemployed and inactive Open
Evidence suggests that small firms create more jobs, but they also destroy more, compared to larger firms. However, there is limited information on small–large firm differences in the types of jobs created and the employees who secure thes…
Declining social mobility? <span>E</span>vidence from five linked censuses in <span>E</span>ngland and <span>W</span>ales 1971–2011 Open
In this paper we add to the existing evidence base on recent trends in inter‐generational social mobility in England and Wales. We analyse data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS‐LS), which links individual rec…