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Our adulthood work stream aims to understand the nature and extent of inequalities in adult outcomes.
Research shows inequalities persist in the labour market - even comparing people with very similar academic achievement.
Our aim is to understand how different pathways into the labour market results in different labour market outcomes, and what risk factors are associated with poor adult outcomes.
We also use data innovations to understand how policies and recruitment practices of leading employers restrict or enhance opportunities for people in the labour market.
Our research
Working papers
- Intergenerational educational mobility and the COVID-19 pandemic - Anna Adamecz-Volgyi, Yuyan Jiang, Nikki Shure and Gill Wyness
- Welfare reform: Employment, mental health and intrahousehold insurance - Mike Brewer, Thang Dang and Emma Tominey
- First generation elite: the role of school networks - Sarah Cattan, Kjell Salvanes and Emma Tominey.
- Understanding recent patterns in intergenerational social mobility: differences by gender, ethnicity, education, and their intersections - Lindsey Macmillan and Abigail McKnight
- Walking the line: Does crossing a high stakes exam threshold matter for labour market outcomes? - Oliver Anderson
- Intergenerational wealth transmission and mobility in Great Britain: what components of wealth matter? - Paul Gregg and Ricky Kanabar
- Intergenerational wealth transmission in Great Britain - Ricky Kanabar and Paul Gregg
- Trends in Intergenerational Home Ownership and Wealth Transmission - Jo Blanden, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
- Unequal Learning and Labour Market Losses in the Crisis: Consequences for Social Mobility - Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
- Unemployment: The Coming Storm, Who Gets Hit, Who Gets Hurt, and Policy Remedies - Jake Anders, Andy Dickerson, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan
- Intergenerational joblessness across Europe: the role of labour markets, education, and welfare generosity - Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan
- Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation and Later Life Outcomes - Emma Gorman, Colm Harmon, Silvia Mendolia, Anita Staneva and Ian Walker
Briefing notes
- AI and Employment Opportunities: Fostering Skill Development for a Prosperous Future - Fabien Petit
- Does education raise people’s productivity or does it just signal their existing ability?
- The unequal scarring effects of a recession on young people's life chances
- Skills are crucial to boosting productivity – but they cannot do the job alone - Arun Advani and Claire Crawford
- How can education and skills contribute to levelling up? - Lindsey Macmillan
- The path to a more socially diverse and inclusive workforce - Claire Tyler
Blog posts
- The dam waiting to burst? The short-term economic impact of Covid and Lockdown - Paul Gregg
- Ethnicity Pay Gaps and Getting Stupid Answers - Paul Gregg
- The challenges of COVID-19 for young people need a new cohort study: introducing COSMO - Jake Anders and Carl Cullinane
- Vaccine hesitancy in children and young adults in England - Patrick Sturgis, Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders, Gill Wyness
- Scarring effects of Furlough - Paul Gregg
- Where We Are after Lockdown 2: Time to move from Crisis Management to a Recovery Plan - Paul Gregg
- A Jobs Rich Recovery - Paul Gregg
- The Coming Storm: Design of Active Labour Market Policy - Paul Gregg
- COVID-19, Skills and the Labour Market - Andy Dickerson
- Unemployment: The Coming Storm - Paul Gregg
- 10 things you may not know about educational inequality
- Home schooling during lockdown: Inequalities in inputs and perceptions - Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness
- Widening participation practitioners won’t let COVID-19 closures stop them from delivering HE access activities - Anna Mountford-Zimdars