'Levelling up' social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain.

Autor/inn/en	Yu, Yang; Gamsu, Sol; Forsberg, Håkan
Titel	'Levelling up' social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Nivellierung der sozialen Mobilität? Ein Vergleich der sozialen und räumlichen Mobilität von Hochschulabsolventen in verschiedenen Bezirken Großbritanniens.
Quelle	In: The British journal of sociology, 75 (2024) 4, S. 379-399 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1315; 1468-4446
DOI	10.1111/1468-4446.13089
Schlagwörter	Chancengleichheit; Mobilitätsbereitschaft; Soziale Herkunft; Soziale Mobilität; Ballungsraum; Binnenwanderung; Ländlicher Raum; Regionale Disparität; Regionale Mobilität; Suburbanisierung; Großstadt; Sozialer Aufstieg; Arbeitsmobilität; Arbeitsplatzwahl; Auswirkung; Peripherie; Regionaler Faktor; Regionaler Vergleich; Hochschulabsolvent; Berufsanfänger; Großbritannien
Abstract	"Social and spatial mobility have been subject to substantial recent sociological and policy debate. Complementing other recent work, in this paper we explore these patterns in relation to higher education. Making use of high-quality data from the higher education statistics agency (HESA), we ran a set of multilevel models to test whether the local authority areas where young people grow up influence social and spatial mobility into a higher professional or managerial job on graduation. We found entry to these patterns reflect pre-existing geographies of wealth and income, with more affluent rural and suburban areas in South-East England having higher levels of entry to these occupations. Graduates clustered from major cities tended to be spatially immobile and those from peripheral areas further away from these cities show a higher density of long-distance moves following graduation. We also explored the intersection between social and spatial mobility for graduates with the economic geography of Britain, showing that access to high-class occupations is not necessarily associated with long-distance moves across most British districts. Our evidence further suggests that the 'London effect', where working-class students have higher school attainment than their peers elsewhere, may not continue through to graduate employment." The study refers to the period 2017-2019 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/2