Colloquium in Nov. 2021
In, Jung (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, UK)
In 2014 Raj Chetty and his colleagues’ study of the U.S. tax data finds geographic differences in intergenerational social mobility in the US, and has been succeeded by similar studies of social mobility in Canada, Australia, Italy, Sweden, and Norway. Calling for geographically-specific care and policies to alleviate inequalities in social mobility, these studies differentiate themselves from the conventional policy studies that have centered on cross-national analysis.
In line with this academic and policy attention to geographical differences in intergenerational social mobility, the presentation examines the related research in the UK. In the UK geographically-specific studies have not been widely conducted due to the lack of the available data, despite the relatively high level of policy interest in social mobility. However, recent academic efforts to add relevant questionnaires to the large-scale surveys or link the multiple administrative data show the promising future of diverse studies in this field.
With this research trend and the summary of a project the presenter works on, shared in the presentation are the project’s preliminary findings on the two paradoxes of intergenerational social mobility in London. By attending to the four groups’ differences in their migration experiences, the project aims to reveal the role of education and migration in making each city’s characteristics of intergenerational social mobility.
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