Research interests: Social Mobility & Inequalities; Migration; Sociology of Education; Quantitative Research Methods
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 Review, 23(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 Sociology, 75(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 Mobility, 83, 100767.
Yu, Y. (2022). Spatial and Social mobility in England: The persistence of the ‘Escalator’ effect for the millennial generation. Population, Space and Place, 29(3), e2625.
Yu, Y. (2022). The graduate Atlas: Visualizing the spatial inequality of employment outcome for university graduates of Britain. People, Place and Policy Online, 15(3), 169-172.