Abstract:
Social and spatial mobility have been subject to substantial recent sociological and policy debate. Complementing other recent work, in this paper we explore these patterns in relation to higher education. Making use of high-quality data from the higher education statistics agency (HESA), we ran a set of multilevel models to test whether the local authority areas where young people grow up influence social and spatial mobility into a higher professional or managerial job on graduation. We found entry to these patterns reflect pre-existing geographies of wealth and income, with more affluent rural and suburban areas in South-East England having higher levels of entry to these occupations. Graduates clustered from major cities tended to be spatially immobile and those from peripheral areas further away from these cities show a higher density of long-distance moves following graduation. We also explored the intersection between social and spatial mobility for graduates with the economic geography of Britain, showing that access to high-class occupations is not necessarily associated with long-distance moves across most British districts. Our evidence further suggests that the \'London effect\', where working-class students have higher school attainment than their peers elsewhere, may not continue through to graduate employment.
摘要:
社会和空间流动性最近受到了大量的社会学和政策辩论。补充其他最近的工作,在本文中,我们探讨了这些模式与高等教育的关系。利用高等教育统计机构(HESA)的高质量数据,我们运行了一套多层次的模型,以测试年轻人成长的地方政府区域是否会影响社会和空间流动性,从而在毕业时成为更高的专业或管理工作。我们发现这些模式的条目反映了先前存在的财富和收入地理,英格兰东南部更富裕的农村和郊区进入这些职业的水平更高。聚集在主要城市的毕业生往往在空间上不动,而远离这些城市的周边地区的毕业生在毕业后表现出更高的长距离移动密度。我们还探讨了毕业生的社会和空间流动性与英国经济地理之间的交集,这表明,获得高级职业并不一定与大多数英国地区的长途旅行有关。我们的证据进一步表明,“伦敦效应”,工人阶级的学生比其他地方的同龄人有更高的学业成绩,可能不会继续到毕业生就业。