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Franz Buscha, Professor of Economics, University of Westminster

The shift from grammar schools to comprehensives had little effect on social mobility in England

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Research shows that in the past 50 years, social class mobility – how a person’s occupation, social class or income compares with that of their parents – has either increased or stayed static in the UK.

But social mobility chances vary substantially depending on where you grow up and move to later in life, as our research has shown to be the case in the England and Wales.

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