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Yang Yu

Research Fellow, Centre for Social Investigation
Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow
Research interests: Social Mobility & Inequalities; Migration; Sociology of Education; Quantitative Research Methods

Publications

Richards, L., Yu, Y., Anderson, L., Jungblut, J., Epifani, G., & Mylona, E. (2024). Childhood Origins of Social Mobility: Revised and Updated. Social Mobility Commission.
 
Yu, Y. (2024). Where are inequalities produced? Comparing the variations of graduate employment between the UK’s districts and universities. Socio-Economic Review23(1), 283-307.
 
Yu, Y., Gamsu, S., & Forsberg, H. (2024). ‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain. The British Journal of Sociology75(4), 379-399.
 
Yu, Y., & Athey, T. (2023). Comparing the social and spatial mobility across UK regions–evidence from the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility83, 100767.
 
Yu, Y. (2022). Spatial and Social mobility in England: The persistence of the ‘Escalator’ effect for the millennial generation. Population, Space and Place29(3), e2625.
 
Yu, Y. (2022). The graduate Atlas: Visualizing the spatial inequality of employment outcome for university graduates of Britain. People, Place and Policy Online15(3), 169-172.