UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax credit subsidies and support for childcare. Maternal employment is seen a central plank in the campaign against child poverty, both because it raises income immediately and...

We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration.We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns ofsegregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic...

In this paper we adopt a theory of class positions based on employmentrelations to assess what implications individuals’ class positions have for theireconomic life. In particular we consider economic security (the risk ofunemployment), economic stability (the variability component in...