Social mobility in Europe

This study of trends in intergenerational social mobility calls into question long-standing views and beliefs such as that there is a basic similarity in social fluidity in all industrial societies. It uses data from 11 European countries over 30 years

This study of trends in intergenerational social mobility calls into question long-standing views and beliefs such as that there is a basic similarity in social fluidity in all industrial societies. It uses data from 11 European countries over 30 years.

Social Mobility in Europe is the most comprehensive study to date of trends in intergenerational social mobility. It uses data from 11 European countries covering the last 30 years of the twentieth century to analyze differences between countries and changes through time. The findings call into question several long-standing views about social mobility. We find a growing similarity between countries in their class structures and rates of absolute mobility: in other words, the countries of Europe are now more alike in their flows between class origins and destinations than they were thirty year