Currently my work is focused on the project Intergenerational Social Mobility: comparison across countries and trends over time (in collaboration with Erzsébet Bukodi and Brian Nolan from the University of Oxford). Intergenerational social mobility refers to the relationship between the socioeconomic position an individual occupies and the position in which he or she was brought up. social mobility has typically entailed comparisons over time and comparisons between countries. However, comparative vietnam rcs data social mobility research has been restricted due to lack of appropriate data. Country comparisons, in particular, have been restricted to a relatively small number of countries or have been of weak quality due to lack of good comparative data.
In this project we extend the country-comparative perspective by studying intergenerational social class mobility in over 30 countries in Europe using consistent and coherent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). In addition to cross-country comparison, we investigate over-time changes in relative mobility chances within countries, using a cohort-approach. The first objective of this project is to give an up-to-date descriptive account of cross-country and over-time differences in absolute and relative mobility rates in Europe. The second aim is to identify the impact of specific institutional or macro-economic features on social mobility rates, thereby advancing understanding of contextual determinants of social mobility.