Social mobility in the United Kingdom
Children of the 1990s – extending understanding of social mobility in England and Wales (2023-2025)
This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and will interrogate several crucial questions on the causes and consequences of social mobility. Is modern Britain an open and fair society? Have the life-chances of children born in the late 1990s improved or deteriorated compared to their predecessors? How do characteristics of local areas such as industrial composition, school quality, and social capital relate to the life-chances of residents? We will use data from the recently completed 2021 census, linked to previous censuses back to 1971, in order to further our understanding of ‘social mobility’ – the study of how people’s jobs and standards of living are shaped by the social and economic context of their upbringing.
This project was funded by
