Published and forthcoming journal articles
Ill health in the family: the intersection of employment and caring across households from four ethnic groups sets out to enhance understanding of the relationship with the labour market for those living with long- term illness and their family members. The article explores the role of family caring responsibilities and ethnicity in shaping patterns of employment participation … More Ill health in the family
Long-term health conditions and Disability Living Allowance: exploring ethnic differences and similarities in access makes use of the Labour Force Survey data combined with detailed new qualitative work to examine patterns of receipt and issues of access to DLA across four ethnic groups. Access the article on the Sociology of Health and Illness website
Making education count: the effects of ethnicity and qualifications on intergenerational social class mobility uses the ONS Longitudinal Study to examine the role of social class and ethnic group background in determining individuals’ social class destinations. It explores the extent to which these background factors are mediated by educational achievement, and the role of educational qualifications in … More Making education count
Child poverty, employment and ethnicity in the UK: the role and limitations of policy discusses the intersection between child poverty and ethnic minority unemployment policy by illustrating the extent of child poverty as ethnically differentiated and exploring the ways in which it is related to aspects of employment. The article goes on to consider the policy implications for … More Child poverty, employment and ethnicity
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
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
Lucinda Platt 