Making education count: The effects of ethnicity and qualifications on intergenerational social class mobility

Sociological Review

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 485-508

  Platt, Lucinda ^a  

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EID: 34547537916     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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