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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 32 in total

  1. The social mobility of ethnic minorities in Britain in the last fifty years (1972-2019): a report for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities - summary report

    Yaojun Li

    1. Social Structure
    2. Migration
    3. Social Change
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Ethnic Groups
    8. Social Stratification

  2. The social mobility of ethnic minorities in Britain in the last fifty years (1972-2019): a report for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities

    Yaojun Li

    1. Social Structure
    2. Migration
    3. Social Change
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Ethnic Groups
    8. Social Stratification

  3. The long term evolution of inequality of opportunity

    Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, and Vito Peragine

    1. Social Networks
    2. Social Structure
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Life Course Analysis

  4. Class matters: a study of minority and majority social mobility in Britain, 1982–2011

    Yaojun Li and Anthony Heath

    1. Social Structure
    2. Migration
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Social Mobility

  5. An evolutionary based social rank explanation of why low income predicts mental distress: A 17 year cohort study of 30,000 people

    Alex M. Wood, Christopher J. Boyce, Simon C. Moore, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Social Structure
    3. Poverty
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Well Being
    6. Social Stratification

  6. Socio-spatial mobility in British society

    William A.V. Clark, Maarten van Ham, and Rory Coulter

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Structure
    3. Migration
    4. Poverty
    5. Social Mobility

  7. Exit, voice and suffering: do couples adapt to changing employment patterns?

    Jonathan Gershuny, M. Bittman, and John Brice

    1. Time Use
    2. Social Structure
    3. Demography
    4. Households

  8. Who marries whom in Great Britain?

    Tak Wing Chan and Brendan Halpin

    1. Social Structure
    2. Education
    3. Social Behaviour

  9. Seven years in the lives of British families: evidence on the dynamics of social change from the British Household Panel Survey

    1. Social Structure
    2. Sociology Of Households

  10. Personal relationships and marriage expectations: evidence from the 1998 British Household Panel Study

    John Ermisch

    1. Social Structure
    2. Households
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  11. The impact of cohabitation and divorce on partners' labour force participation: comparing Britain with Flanders

    Joris Ghysels

    1. Social Structure
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution

  12. Social focus on young people

    Catherine Barham, Rebecca Deacon, Victoria Jackson, et al.

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography

  13. Cohabitation in Great Britain: not for long, but here to stay

    John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography
    3. Households
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution

  14. Seven years in the lives of British families -book chapter-

    Richard Berthoud and Jonathan Gershuny

    1. Social Structure
    2. Sociology Of Households

  15. Who marries whom in Great Britain?

    Tak Wing Chan and Brendan Halpin

    1. Social Structure
    2. Education
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Behaviour

  16. What matters most to the people of Britain?

    Daniel Dorling

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography

  17. Fathers, marriage and the law

    Ros Pickford

    1. Social Structure
    2. Households
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Social Policy

  18. Britain towards 2010: the changing business environment

    Richard Scase

    1. Social Structure
    2. Social Change
    3. Social Behaviour

  19. Changing Britain: families and households in the 1990s

    1. Social Structure
    2. Sociology Of Households

  20. Who divorces?

    Kathleen E. Kiernan and Ganka Mueller

    1. Social Structure
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution

  21. Poverty and exclusion in rural Britain: the dynamics of low income and employment

    Polly Chapman, Euan Phimister, Mark Shucksmith, et al.

    1. Social Exclusion
    2. Social Structure
    3. Households
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics

  22. Family and sociodemographic influences on patterns of leaving home in postwar Britain

    Mike Murphy and Duolao Wang

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography
    3. Households

  23. Divorced and who divorces?

    Kathleen E. Kiernan and Ganka Mueller

    1. Social Structure
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution

  24. Cohabitation in Great Britain: not for long, but here to stay

    Marco Francesconi and John Ermisch

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography
    3. Households
    4. Family Formation And Dissolution

  25. Poverty and social exclusion in north and south

    1. Social Structure
    2. Social Stratification

  26. Fathers and fatherhood in Britain

    Louie Burghes, Lynda Clarke, and Natalie Cronin

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography
    3. Households

  27. Exit, voice and suffering: do couples adapt to changing employment patterns?

    Jonathan Gershuny, M. Bittman, and John Brice

    1. Time Use
    2. Social Structure
    3. Demography
    4. Households

  28. Future Britain: the ties that bind: creating communities: conference paper presented to ESRC Social Science Conference, QE2 Centre, 25th June 1997

    Ray Pahl

    1. Social Structure
    2. Research
    3. Social Behaviour
    4. Social Psychology

  29. Family change: demographic and attitudinal trends across nations and time

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Social Behaviour

  30. Cohabitation in Britain

    Nick Buck and John Ermisch

    1. Social Structure
    2. Demography
    3. Households

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