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The aim of this paper is to examine the size and significance of the contribution which health-related social mobility makes to social class differences in health, by examining the association between intergenerational social mobility and health among currently employed men and women in Britain and Finland. Some weak evidence for health-related downward social mobility was found for currently employed Finnish men and women, but not for their British counterparts. Moreover, the evidence is weaker for self-assessed health than for limiting long-standing illness. Where social mobility may have been health-related, it concerns very rare and small groups; therefore health inequalities among the currently employed cannot be explained by intergenerational health-related social mobility.

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