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Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States (Hardcover)
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Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Social Inequality
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This volume examines the role of education in shaping rates and
patterns of intergenerational social mobility among men and women
during the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationship between
a person's social class and the social class of his or her parents,
each chapter looks at a different country-the United States,
Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and
Switzerland. Contributors examine change in absolute and relative
mobility and in education across birth cohorts born between the
first decade of the twentieth century and the early 1970s. They
find a striking similarity in trends across all countries, and in
particular a contrast between the fortunes of people born before
the 1950s, those who enjoyed increasing rates of upward mobility
and a decline in the strength of the link between class origins and
destinations, and later generations who experienced more downward
mobility and little change in how origins and destinations are
linked. This volume uncovers the factors that drove these shifts,
revealing education as significant in promoting social openness. It
will be an invaluable source for anyone who wants to understand the
evolution of mobility and inequality in the contemporary world.
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