Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...

Recent sociological analysis of the extent to which modern British society hasbecome more meritocratic raises important conceptual issues for the recurrenteconomic history debate concerning the social mobility of Britain’s business leaders.The majority view in this debate is that high social...

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relativewage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of jobsatisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positionswithin their firms are on average more...

“Migrations have been part of human history since the dawn of time”. Yet, in the wake of long-term economic transformations over the past five hundred years, human migration and mobility have assumed a dimension which has proved new both in scale and in character. The gradual transformation...

In this paper we examine the concept of “vulnerability” within the context of incomemobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UKusing Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Study and find that, of threedifferent types of risks that we test for,...

We examine the performance of measures of mobility when allowance ismade for the possibility of data contamination. We find that “singlestage”indices – those that are applied directly to a sample from amultivariate income distribution – usually prove to be non-robust in theface of...

This report was commissioned to help the Secretary of State for Communities and LocalGovernment “stand back and ask what role social housing can play in 21st Century housingpolicy”. Its aim is to provide the background and analytical framework against which theimplications of different...

Dieses Dossier steckt den politischen, ökologischen, ökonomischen und technischenRahmen der individuellen Elektromobilität ab, in dem Kommunen neueDienstleistungen für eine nachhaltige Mobilität entwickeln können.

This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that includes both those with secure patterns of employment and a wider group who experience periods without earnings. It finds significant increases in annual earnings inequality for...

Lower barriers to entry and developments in world capital markets have increasedthe actual and potential mobility of multinational enterprises. This poses challengesfor host countries' tax policies. The paper examines implications for such policies, formultinantionals' investment decisions and...