This paper summarizes research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility–whether
classified by income, education or social class. The literatures on education and income …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the
past four decades. We use detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical …

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This
book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close …

From Every Child Matters and the Munro Review, to changing shifts in thinking from
Coalition government; the child protection system has seen dramatic political and policy …

This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for
the overall gender pay gap. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada …

Forty years ago, the discipline that we call educational effectiveness and improvement
research (EEI) simply did not exist in a recognisable form. There were some researchers …

This paper presents an analysis of the trends in inequality across income, earnings and
consumption in Britain since 1978. It documents the episodic nature of inequality growth …

When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten
years on its success in making Britain'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an …

Introduction it was very much services for adults she had in mind. As we will demonstrate,
the remit of children's social care is almost exclusively with 'children in need', as defined by …

We analyse income inequality in the UK from 1978 to 2009 in order to understand why
income inequality rose very rapidly from 1978 to 1991 but then remained broadly …