Tuesday 1 February 2011

Social mobility Seminar

The question as to what has happened to social mobility in the UK over recent decades tends to generate more heat than light. To help clarify exactly what has happened to earnings mobility (and why) the Resolution Foundation has embarked on a major new programme of work. As part of this we hosted an expert seminar on 1st February to discuss the first phase of our project – a working paper by Lee Savage entitled “Earnings change and mobility in the 1990s and 2000s”. The seminar brought together some of the UK’s leading thinkers and academics on social mobility including:

The discussion generated a lot of interesting ideas and feedback that will be used in our first report from this project, due to be published in late-February.