This paper presents a new analysis of intergenerational mobility across three cohorts in England and Wales using linked decennial census microdata focusing on occupation, home ownership, and education. Four main results emerge. First, area-level differences in upward occupational mobility are highly persistent over time. Second, measures of absolute and relative mobility tend to be spatially positively correlated. Third, there is a robust relationship between upward educational and upward occupational mobility. Last, there is a small negative relationship between upward home ownership mobility and upward occupational mobility, revealing that social mobility comparisons based on different outcomes can have different trends.

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1 January 2023

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Scandinavian Journal of Economics 125(1) , pp.73-106, 2023

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DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12511

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjoe.12511

This Journal article is published under the centre's Labour programme.