ABSTRACT
Given the strong negative effects of age on social mobility, much of the migration-related social mobility would have been amongst young women in their first or early jobs in 1981. Those that remained in the labour market benefited from a move to London, possibly because higher-level jobs in the London economy appear to be rather more open to women, and to young women in particular, than similar jobs in other parts of the country (Bruegel 1999). It is not yet clear why this should be, although it appears to be a feature of metropolitan cities more generally.
