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What do we know and what should we do about…
Social Mobility?
Lee Elliot Major
Stephen Machin
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© Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin 2020
First published 2020
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Titles in the Series
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration?
Jonathan Portes
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Inequality?
Mike Brewer
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work?
Melanie Simms
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Internet Privacy?
Paul Bernal
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing?
Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs
Forthcoming:
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Terrorism?
Brooke Rogers
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Sustainable Living?
Kate Burningham and Tim Jackson
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Fake News?
Nick Anstead
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Slavery?
Julia O'Connell-Davidson
About the Series
Every news bulletin carries stories which relate in some way to the social sciences – most obviously politics, economics and sociology, but also, often, anthropology, business studies, security studies, criminology, geography and many others.
Yet despite the existence of large numbers of academics who research these subjects, relatively little of their work is known to the general public. There are many reasons for that, but arguably, is that the kinds of formats that social scientists publish in, and the way in which they write, are simply not accessible to the general public.
The guiding theme of this series is to provide a format and a way of writing which addresses this problem. Each book in the series is concerned with a topic of widespread public interest, and each is written in a way which is readily understandable to the general reader with no particular background knowledge.
The authors are academics with an established reputation and a track record of research in the relevant subject. They provide an overview of the research knowledge
