Educational upward mobility – practices of social changes

Measuring Upward Mobility

This paper develops a mobility measure that combines desirable features of the relative and absolute approaches to measuring mobility. From the relative approach we borrow the idea that income growth accruing to the relatively poor is more to be valued than income growth to the relatively rich. From the absolute approach we take the idea that upward changes are to be valued, in and of themselve...

Social Mobility and the Educational Choices of Asian Americans*

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

Reforms which increase the stock of education in a society have long been held by policy-makers as key to improving rates of intergenerational social mobility. Yet, despite the intuitive plausibility of this idea, the empirical evidence in support of an effect of educational expansion on social fluidity is both indirect and weak. In this paper we use the raising of the minimum school leaving ag...

Impact of upward social mobility on population mortality: analysis with routine data.

OBJECTIVE To examine the contribution of changes in the distribution of social class to the mortality of the whole population between 1970-2 and 1991-3. DESIGN Examination of routine data at two time points: 1970-2 and 1991-3. DATA SOURCE Data provided by the Office for National Statistics. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Difference for the total population in the number of deaths between 1971 and ...

Is Social Mobility an Echo of Educational Mobility? Parents’ Educations and Occupations and their Children’s Occupational Attainment

Quantitative studies of occupational attainment and intergenerational social mobility have often devoted little attention to the roles of parental education and educational inheritance. Informed by the ideas of authors who see class reproduction as reflecting more than occupations and economic resources (including Devine, Savage and Crompton), this paper assesses the importance of parents’ educ...