Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at London School of Economics and Political Science
Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics uses administrative data to explore benefit dynamics for children in Britain’s second largest city, Birmingham, over the period January 1998 to June 1999. As the benefits in question (housing benefit and council tax benefit) are means tested, the dynamics are also informative about moves in and out of low income. … More Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics
Social participation: how does it vary with illness, caring and ethnic group? is an ISER Working Paper. The paper uses the British Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001 for England and Wales to explore the impact on four aspects of lack of social engagement of long-term illness, caring for someone with such an illness, and ethnicity. Download … More Social participation: illness, caring and ethnicity
Migration and social mobility: The life chances of Britain’s minority ethnic communities – traces patterns of intergenerational social mobility for children from different ethnic groups growing up in England and Wales. Drawing on data from the ONS Longitudinal Survey, this report focuses on children born between the late 1950s and mid 1970s.Measures of their progress and class … More Migration and social mobility
New destinations? Assessing the post-migration social mobility of minority ethnic groups in England and Wales considers the roles of migration and group-specific ethnic penalties in minority groups’ life chances. The article first explores the relationship of class origins to parental educational and economic assets for three groups of migrant parentage and a comparison white non-migrant group. It … More Post-migration social mobility of minority ethnic groups
The intergenerational social mobility of minority ethnic groups uses data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study to describe the different patterns of class mobility experienced by a single cohort of children aged 8-15 in 1971 from each of three ethnic groups: white non-migrants, Indians and Caribbeans. Access the abstract and details of the article from the … More Intergenerational social mobility of minority ethnic groups
Mobility and missing data: what difference does non-response make to observed patterns of intergenerational class mobility by ethnic group? is an ISER Working Paper. The paper highlights the issue of missing data in studying social mobility, outlines its potential implications, and offers some preliminary analysis of the impact of missing data on our understanding of intergenerational … More Mobility and missing data
Discovering child poverty presents an overview of 200 years of investigation into and responses to the plight of poor children. It investigates attitudes to poor children 200 years ago and asks how child poverty emerged as both a quantifiable and urgent issue. The book includes chapters on children and work, education and child poverty research to provide the essential context … More Discovering child poverty
Lucinda Platt 