Recent policy interest by the current and previous UK Governments culminated in a Ôsocial mobility strategyÕ in April 2011 (HM Government 2011). In 2009, a cross-national study of the intergenerational transmission of advantage under the auspices of the Russell Sage Foundation commenced. It involved a coordinated set of sixteen mobility studies across ten countries with different levels of inequality. Like the government strategy, it took a life cycle approach. It is a first step toward underst
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Centre for Economic Performance 2010-2015
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ESRC
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Bibliographic Information
Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage (2012)
ISBN: 978-0-87154-045-4