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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 487-515Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279414000634
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- Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
- Economic and Social Research Council [1392542] Funding Source: researchfish
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There is currently debate inpolicy circles about access to 'the upper echelons of power' ( Sir John Major, ex Prime Minister, 2013). This research explores the relationship between family background and early access to top occupations. We find that privately educated graduates are a third more likely to enter into high-status occupations than state educated graduates from similarly affluent families and neighbourhoods, largely due to differences in educational attainment and university selection. We find that although the use of networks cannot account for the private school advantage, they provide an additional advantage and this varies by the type of top occupation that the graduate enters.
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