Social Mobility
Recent research and publications on social mobility
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: No snakes, but no ladders: Young people, employment, and the low skills trap at the bottom of the contemporary service economy. Finds more young people trapped in low-pay jobs, with limited prospects (29th March 2012).
Economic and Social Research Centre (ESCR): Finding the path to social mobility: new evidence briefings. A set of 5 evidence briefings on social mobility that investigate how health, parenting, education, skills and poverty influence the opportunities for individuals and life outcomes (March 2012).
Equality Trust: Research Digest, Social Mobility. Looks at the relationship between high levels of income inequality and low levels of social mobility (March 2012).
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011. Amongst other things, finds 34% of children eligible for free school meals fail to meet minimum standards in English and Maths, aged 11, compared to 17% of those who aren’t (1st December 2011).
Sutton Trust: What prospects for mobility in the UK? Says schools serving the poorest 20 per cent of pupils were four times more likely to be “inadequate” than those for the wealthiest 20 per cent (28th November 2011).