Search Results - subject:"mobility‌"

School starting age and the social gradient in educational outcomes

Zhao, Yuejun; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2024

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in Norway specifically aimed at reducing achievement...

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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?

Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024

Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...

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Universal credit : incomes, incentives and the remaining roll-out

Ray-Chaudhuri, Sam; Waters, Tom - 2024

The introduction of universal credit (UC) has been the most significant reform to the workingage benefits system since the reforms following the post-war Beveridge Report. When fully rolled out, around 8 million families - 29% of all working-age families - will be entitled to the benefit. UC is...

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Seven key facts about UK living standards

Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom - 2024

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The distributional impact of tax and benefit reforms since 2010

Waters, Tom; Wernham, Thomas - 2024

The past 14 years have witnessed an enormous amount of reform to the tax and benefit system. While it is tempting for politicians to draw attention to one set of reforms or another, what matters for household incomes is the whole system. In this report, we study the impact of policy changes to...

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Intergenerational trends in educational and income mobility in the United States of America since the 1960s

Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024

intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility … top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose … parents graduated from college, downward educational and income mobility has decreased. High parental income enables parents …

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