Social Indicators Research, Vol. 132, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 1117-1129 (13 pages) To understand the influence of social capital (the size of local supportive networks and generalized trust) in ...

It's fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be ...

This article develops a new explorative method for deriving social class categories from patterns of occupational mobility. In line with Max Weber, our research is based on the notion that, if class ...

In this article, we will look at the 15 countries with the highest social mobility in the world. We will also discuss the social mobility efforts of some companies. If you want to skip our detailed ...

Social mobility remains at the very top of the political agenda. Yet the UK has traditionally lacked a data source extensive enough to pinpoint exactly where to target policy interventions intended to ...

A study uses a genetic measure associated with education to examine social mobility in individuals from three countries. A genetic measure called a polygenic score, derived from a genome-wide ...

No matter what social class you come from, it impacts how you show up at work. For instance, depending on your personal circumstances, you would experience a company policy that expects employees to ...

When political science major Zabdi Velásquez graduates from UC Riverside in mid-June, he will be one of thousands of new University of California alums entering their next chapter unburdened by ...

Future historians will mark the last decade a watershed for U.S. higher education. Demand for college degrees by employers and families has been growing for generations, yet the politics of providing ...