Understanding the role of policy on inequalities in the intergenerational correlation in health and wages: Evidence from the UK from 1991-2017.

ABSTRACT: Social mobility is high on the policy agenda and is an important component of reducing inequalities. Estimating the relationship across generations of multiple dimensions of mobility such as health and wages can be used to understand the current state of mobility. However, there has been little research on how policy impacts on the relationship of multiple outcomes across generations and how that may be contributing to health inequalities and long-term mobility. In this paper, we use the UK as a case study to evaluate the impact of three distinct policy periods: 1991-1998 (Increasing neo-liberalism); 1998-2009 (English Health Inequalities Strategy); 2010-2017 (Austerity) on the relationship across generations in health (self-assessed health (SAH) and mental health measured by General Healt

SUBMITTER: Brown H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7299402 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature