Social Mobility Commission: moving out to move on

Dafni Papoutsaki and Matthew Williams, Institute for Employment Studies

(Project no. 1014592)

The research will investigate the link between internal migration and intergenerational social mobility. More specifically, to what extent does migration from deprived to prosperous areas allow individuals who were born into families with low socio-economic status to experience upward social mobility. Furthermore, it will investigate the level and direction of migration flows from deprived areas, and how such out-migrations affect the people living in those areas.