Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States

In: Studies in Social Inequality

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction Social Mobility and Education in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter Two. Methodological Preliminaries -- Chapter Three. The Land of Opportunity? Trends in Social Mobility and Education in the United States -- Chapter Four. Sweden, the Middle Way? Trends and Patterns in Social Mobility and Educational Inequality -- Chapter Five. Intergenerational Mobility and Social Fluidity in France over Birth Cohorts and Across Age: The Role of Education -- Chapter Six. Education as an Equalizing Force: How Declining Educational Inequality and Educational Expansion Have Contributed to More Social Fluidity in Germany -- Chapter Seven. The Swiss El Dorado? Education and Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Switzerland -- Chapter Eight. The Role of Education in the Social Mobility of Dutch Cohorts, 1908-74 -- Chapter Nine. Education and Social Fluidity in Contemporary Italy: An Analysis of Cohort Trends -- Chapter Ten. Intergenerational Social Mobility in Twentieth-Century Spain: Social Fluidity without Educational Equalization? -- Chapter Eleven. Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century in Europe and the United States -- Bibliography -- Index