This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain. A cross-cohort comparison of two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen for people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s (the 1958 birth cohort) as compared to a cohort who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s (the 1970 birth cohort). This supports theoretical notions that the widening wage and income distribution that occurred from the late 1970s onwards, together with the fact that the rapid expansion of education supply was predominantly from people from higher income backgrounds, acted to slow down the extent of mobility up or down the distribution across generations.
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