Social Mobility Grinding to a Halt? New Evidence from the Census and Birth Cohort Studies (bookings closed)

Description:

There is widespread consensus amongst policy-makers and media commentators that social mobility in the UK has been ‘grinding to a halt’, or even going into reverse over recent decades. Yet the evidence underpinning this contention is, at best, weak. This is because the requirements for producing robust and accurate estimates of intergenerational social mobility are rarely met in most existing data sets. This symposium presents findings from two ESRC funded projects which make use of the UK’s unique longitudinal data resources to provide new evidence on recent trends in social fluidity in the United Kingdom.     

Programme

12.15      Registration opens (buffet lunch available)  

13.15      Introduction   

13.30      Social Mobility Trends: Gender similarities and differences;

               Presenter: Erzsebet Bukodi, University of Oxford  

14.00      Declining Social Mobility? Evidence from five linked Censuses in England and  Wales 1971-2011,

               Presenter: Patrick Sturgis, University of Southampton  

14.30      Discussant, Colin Mills, University of Oxford & QA from the floor  

15.00      Break (Tea and coffee)  

15.30      Analysing the role of education in class mobility: a new approach;

               Presenter: Jouni Kuha, London School of Economics  

16.00      Increasing inter-generational social mobility: is educational expansion the answer?,

               Presenter: Franz Buscha, University of Westminster Business School  

16.30      Discussant, Jo Blanden, University of Surrey & QA from the floor  

17.00      Finish

Cost:

This event is free to attend but please register by following the link to the online store

Region:

Greater London

Keywords:

Longitudinal Data Analysis

Related publications and presentations:

Longitudinal Data Analysis

Back to archive...