Research Paper

Generation COVID: emerging work and education inequalities

By Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

Publication details

Publication date: 15 October 2020
Series or book: CEP Covid-19 analysis
Series or chapter number: 011
Pages: pp. 1–14
Publisher: London School of Economics: Centre for Economic Performance

Summary

The purpose of this brief paper is to present initial findings from the recently collected LSE-CEP Social Mobility survey, which was undertaken as part of our UKRI project ‘Generation COVID and Social Mobility: Evidence and Policy’. These are the first results from a project that is producing a detailed assessment of COVID-19’s impact on education and economic inequalities and offering an assessment for the longer term consequences for social mobility in the UK.

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