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| Author: | Erikson, R. Goldthorpe, J.H. |
| Title: | Has social mobility in Britain decreased? Reconciling divergent findings on income and class mobility |
| Journal: | British Journal of Sociology
2010 : JUN, VOL. 61:2, p. 211-230 |
| Index terms: | mobility social classes incomes educational attainment |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is widely believed in political and media circles that in Britain today social mobility is in decline. However, this belief appears to be based on a single piece of research by economists that is in fact concerned with intergenerational income mobility. Research by sociologists using the British birth cohort studies of 1985 and 1970 and focusing on intergenerational class mobility does not reveal a decline either in total mobility rates or in underlying relative rates. This article investigates these divergent findings. Further analyses suggest that the economists' finding of declining mobility between the two cohorts may stem from the fact that the family income variable for the 1985 cohort provides a less adequate measure of "permanent income" than does that for the 1970 cohort. The class mobility regime more fully captures the continuity in economic advantage and disadvantage that persists across generations. |
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