Social mobility and its enemies
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
Increasingly it seems that the rich and poor of Britain are destined to stay on the same rungs of the economic or social ladder for successive generations. A new book by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin calls for an alternative model of social mobility, one that develops all talents, not just academic, but vocational and creative too ? and which creates opportunities across the whole country, not just in London.
2 November 2018 Paper Number CEPCP541