This paper develops and applies the 'Essex Score' approach to classifying life chances. This is in essence a class measure, insofar as it identifies the extent of access (of individuals and households) to those resources which determine the distribution of economic power within the society....

This paper investigates a number of conjectures about the relative importance of the two components of social class, wealth and human capital, through the life course. It sets out grounds for the expectation that human capital will be of more importance to social position during the earlier part...

The paper addresses some macro-sociological questions about changes in broad categories of time-use. The focus is on large-scale cross-national time trends from developed countries in paid and unpaid work, and leisure. Reference is made to some well-known sociological and historical accounts of...

This paper develops a continuously scaled indicator of social position (the Essex Score), which is estimated as individuals' potential wage in the labour market. The Essex Score is designed as a tool to investigate patterns of differentiation in life chances. It is constructed based on...

The twin starting points for this paper are recent discussions in economic theory concerning the normative foundations for indices of intergenerational mobility, and the development of a human capital score intended (in conjunction with a parallel measure of individual wealth) to act as an...