We know very little about the inequalities experienced by disabled people in the UK today. My research finds that disabled young people lag behind in employment compared to young people who are not ...
Family conditions -- specifically, how similar one's social status and background is to one's parents' status -- may play a bigger role in determining how easily an individual can shift into a ...
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It's fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be ...
A study uses a genetic measure associated with education to examine social mobility in individuals from three countries. A genetic measure called a polygenic score, derived from a genome-wide ...
The coronavirus pandemic demonstrates the salience of class to the spread, containment and impact of infectious diseases. The virus hitches a ride on us, the humans who act simultaneously as its hosts ...
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